Rules Suggestions
The Advisory Committees evaluate in the first instance suggestions to amend the Federal Rules.
| Name of Individual and/or Organization | Date Received |
Committee |
Rule or Form | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (17-CV-AAAAAA) | 09/15/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Benjamin C. Mizer (15-CV-PP) | 12/04/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Hon. Julie A. Robinson (12-CV-D) | 08/20/2012 | Civil | Rules concerning service; Notice of electronic filing as certificate of service | Considered |
| American Association for Justice (17-CV-G) | 03/22/2017 | Civil | Rule 47 | Pending consideration |
| National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (18-CV-AA) | 11/20/2018 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Chubb Group of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies (20-CV-BB) | 09/29/2020 | Civil | Third-party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| Bryant E. Crooks (17-CV-DD) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| The Maritime Law Association of the United States (William R. Dorsey) (01-CV-B) | 06/15/2001 | Civil | Admiralty Rule B | Considered |
| Zachary Clopton and Andrew Hammond (21-CV-C) | 01/19/2021 | Civil | IFP Petitions | Pending consideration |
| Timothy C. Bailey (17-CV-LLLL) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Prof. Rhonda Wasserman (15-CV-U) | 04/12/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| National Employment Lawyers Association (17-CV-OOOOO) | 08/08/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| John L. Runft, Esq. (05-CV-F) | 08/05/2005 | Civil | Motions in Limine | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (15-CV-II) | 10/15/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Carol Dalenko (10-CV-E) | 01/14/2011 | Civil | Rule 15(a)(1)(B) | Considered |
| The Sedona Conference (22-CV-A) | 01/12/2022 | Civil | Filing Under Seal | Pending consideration |
| Jerry Lowe (20-CV-W) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Andrew Straw (22-CV-R) | 12/04/2022 | Civil | Rule 11 | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-B) | 01/17/2018 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-T) | 05/25/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Myer Sanderson (17-CV-P) | 06/06/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Christopher Bogart (19-CV-F) | 02/20/2019 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Jeremy L. Bordelon (17-CV-TT) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Robert Keehn (17-CV-VVV) | 07/29/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| State Bar of Michigan Committee on United States Courts (15-CV-E) | 03/06/2015 | Civil | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Craig C. Reilly, Esq. (03-CV-E) | 08/06/2003 | Civil | Rules 54 & 72 | Considered |
| Akiva Shapiro, Lee R. Crain, and Amanda LeSavage (21-CV-F) | 03/17/2021 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on amicus filings | Considered |
| Professor David J. Sharpe (07-CV-D) | 05/06/2008 | Civil | Admiralty Rules | Considered |
| Leto Copeley (17-CV-BBBBB) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Alan B. Morrison (15-CV-Y) | 08/28/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |