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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryce Cook (17-CV-OO) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Sai (19-CV-R) | 07/09/2019 | Civil | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Josh E. Eden (17-CV-QQQ) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (21-CV-E) | 02/16/2021 | Civil | Rule 37(c)(1) | Considered |
| Alcan Aluminum Corporation (Lawrence A. Salibra, II, Esq.) (00-CV-C) | 06/05/2000 | Civil | Rule 5 | Considered |
| Aaron Caplan (20-CV-A) | 01/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 7; Rule 10 | Considered |
| Giuseppe Ippolito (21-CV-Q) | 07/04/2021 | Civil | Rule 25 | Considered |
| Christine E. Webber (17-CV-WWWW) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Christina A. Snyder (04-CV-H) | 08/02/2004 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Christopher Cross (22-CV-G) | 06/14/2022 | Civil | Rule 17 | Pending consideration |
| Professor Paul D. Carrington (09-CV-A) | 04/06/2009 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| John Facciola and Jonathan Redgrave (23-CV-A) | 01/31/2023 | Civil | Rules 16 and 26 | Pending consideration |
| Administrative Conference of the United States (17-CV-D) | 01/13/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (18-CV-X) | 09/14/2018 | Civil | 7, 20, 23.3 (new), 26(a) | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel DRI - The Voice of the Defense BarInternational Association of Defense Counsel (13-CV-G) | 08/09/2013 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Amanda A. Mingo (17-CV-Y) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Dennis Brock (19-CV-N) | 04/02/2019 | Civil | Rules 4 and 5 | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (20-CV-II) | 12/21/2020 | Civil | Third Party Litigation Funding | Pending consideration |
| Nitin Sud (17-CV-EEE) | 07/21/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Joint Suggestion from 48 General Counsel (19-CV-AA) | 10/03/2019 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking concerning MDL cases | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CV-J) | 04/14/2021 | Civil | Rule 5(d) | Pending consideration |
| DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar (17-CV-GGGG) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| National Consumer Law Center, Inc. and National Association of Consumer Advocates (15-CV-P) | 04/01/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (17-CV-JJJJJ) | 08/03/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Joseph E. Irenas (02-CV-G) | 07/31/2002 | Civil | De Bene Esse Depositions | Considered |
| Joshua Goodbaum (21-CV-Y) | 11/12/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(d)(1) | Pending consideration |
| Eugene Volokh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (20-CV-T) | 08/06/2020 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (17-CV-HHHHHH) | 12/15/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Victor Schwartz (18-CV-P) | 06/07/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Ariana J. Tadler, Esq. and William P. Butterfield, Esq. (11-CV-G) | 11/06/2011 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |