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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tae Sture (17-CV-PPP) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Unitel (William P. Callahan, Esq.) (07-CV-A) | 03/08/2007 | Civil | Rule 45 | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (21-CV-P) | 07/01/2021 | Civil | Third party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| Gray Ritter & Graham, PC (17-CV-VVVV) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Burg Simpson (20-CV-I) | 06/16/2020 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on MDL interlocutory appeals | Pending consideration |
| 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 |
| Burford Capital LLC (17-CV-XXXXX) | 09/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Judge Patricia Barksdale (22-CV-F) | 06/08/2022 | Civil | Rule 7.1 | Pending consideration |
| Jeremy L. Bordelon (17-CV-TT) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-I) | 02/22/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| State Bar of Michigan Committee on United States Courts (15-CV-E) | 03/06/2015 | Civil | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Roy H. Wepner, Esq. (00-CV-H) | 11/30/2000 | Civil | Rule 6 | Considered |
| Public Justice, P.C. and Public Justice Foundation (19-CV-M) | 03/29/2019 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Shanin Specter (20-CV-HH) | 12/18/2020 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on multidistrict litigation | Pending consideration |
| Alan B. Morrison (15-CV-Y) | 08/28/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Arthur Spitzer (19-CV-Z) | 09/19/2019 | Civil | Rule 15 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CV-I) | 04/14/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(i) | Pending consideration |
| George Brent Mickum IV, Esq. (05-CV-C) | 06/01/2005 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP (17-CV-FFFF) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | 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 |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (20-CV-R) | 08/04/2020 | Civil | Rules 26(b)(5)(a) and 45(e)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (22-CV-M) | 09/08/2022 | Civil | Rule 16(c)(2) | 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 |
| Koji Fukumura, et al (18-CV-N) | 05/24/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Kevin Bennardo (15-CR-A) | 02/17/2015 | Criminal | Rule 35 | Considered |
| Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr. (02-CR-C) | 06/05/2002 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Michael Blasie (18-CR-B) | 03/10/2018 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |