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. John McBryde (12-CV-B) | 04/06/2012 | Civil | Rule 15 | Considered |
| 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 |
| Akiva Shapiro, Lee R. Crain, and Amanda LeSavage (21-CV-F) | 03/17/2021 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on amicus filings | Considered |
| Roy H. Wepner, Esq. (00-CV-H) | 11/30/2000 | Civil | Rule 6 | 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 |
| George Brent Mickum IV, Esq. (05-CV-C) | 06/01/2005 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| John Vail, Esq. (10-CV-B) | 08/13/2010 | Civil | Rule 23 | Pending consideration |
| 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 |
| Professor Bradley Scott Shannon (14-CV-D) | 04/29/2014 | Civil | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Bryant E. Crooks (17-CV-DD) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | 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 |
| Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, California (Hon. A. Wallace Tashima) (03-CV-B) | 05/08/2003 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (15-CV-II) | 10/15/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| The Sedona Conference (22-CV-A) | 01/12/2022 | Civil | Filing Under Seal | Pending consideration |
| Unitel (William P. Callahan, Esq.) (07-CV-A) | 03/08/2007 | Civil | Rule 45 | Considered |
| 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-C) | 01/17/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (18-CV-U) | 06/11/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |