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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal (06-CV-F) | 08/25/2006 | Civil | Rule 5 | Considered |
| Thomas H. Padgett, Jr. (17-CV-CCC) | 07/21/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Bowman and Brooke, LLP (17-CV-EEEE) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Ralph Erickson (22-CV-H) | 06/30/2022 | Civil | Rule 7.1 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Vaughn R. Walker (07-CV-F) | 08/15/2008 | Civil | Electronic Attachments | Considered |
| Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP (17-CV-FFFF) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Usha Jain (20-CV-J) | 06/24/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| B. Sachau (08-CV-A) | 07/30/2008 | Civil | Rules 30, 33 & 36 | Considered |
| Prof. Rhonda Wasserman (15-CV-U) | 04/12/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Anthony Buonopane (23-CV-O) | 05/15/2023 | Civil | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (15-CV-II) | 10/15/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| American Tort Reform Association (18-CV-O) | 06/08/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Alan Schoenbaum, Esq. (13-CV-B) | 02/15/2013 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Alan Morrison (19-CV-B) | 01/22/2019 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Alcan Aluminum Corporation (Lawrence A. Salibra, II, Esq.) (00-CV-C) | 06/05/2000 | Civil | Rule 5 | Considered |
| John D. Rabiej (17-CV-K) | 05/19/2017 | Civil | Rule 23.3 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-CV-R) | 07/09/2019 | Civil | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Hon. Christina A. Snyder (04-CV-H) | 08/02/2004 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Risner and Graham (17-CV-NN) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Aaron Caplan (20-CV-A) | 01/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 7; Rule 10 | Considered |
| Tae Sture (17-CV-PPP) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| John Facciola and Jonathan Redgrave (21-CV-Z) | 11/24/2021 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (20-CV-E) | 03/30/2020 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on MDL proceedings | Pending consideration |
| International Legal Finance Association (22-CV-O) | 10/03/2022 | Civil | Rule 16(c)(2) | Pending consideration |
| State Bar of Michigan Committee on United States Courts (15-CV-E) | 03/06/2015 | Civil | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Gray Ritter & Graham, PC (17-CV-VVVV) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Janeth Ramos (20-CV-U) | 08/09/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Gregg R. Zegarelli, Esq. (11-CV-A) | 05/13/2011 | Civil | Rule 55(b) | Considered |
| Alan B. Morrison (15-CV-Y) | 08/28/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| 19 Organizations (23-CV-T) | 08/31/2023 | Civil | Rule 77 | Pending consideration |