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. Julie A. Robinson (12-CV-D) | 08/20/2012 | Civil | Rules concerning service; Notice of electronic filing as certificate of service | Considered |
| Social Security Administration (17-CV-Q) | 05/26/2017 | Civil | Special Procedural Rules for Social Security Litigation in District Court | Pending consideration |
| Professor Jeffrey A. Parness (05-CV-A) | 01/10/2005 | Civil | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Theodore Folkman (20-CV-FF) | 11/05/2020 | Civil | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Michael J. Merrick (17-CV-VV) | 07/19/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| David A Sims (17-CV-XXX) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| American Antitrust Institute (15-CV-G) | 03/16/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| International Legal Finance Association (21-CV-H) | 04/07/2021 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Twenty-Eight Companies (21-CV-U) | 09/28/2021 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Terrell Marshal Law Group PLLC (17-CV-EEEEE) | 08/02/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Michael Norman (20-CV-M) | 07/29/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Public Justice, P.C. and Public Justice Foundation (15-CV-BB) | 09/08/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Washington Legal Foundation (17-CV-CCCCCC) | 09/27/2017 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| State Bar of Michigan Committee on United States Courts (16-CV-B) | 03/08/2016 | Civil | Rule 45 | Pending consideration |
| Carol Dalenko (10-CV-E) | 01/14/2011 | Civil | Rule 15(a)(1)(B) | Considered |
| Peter Geraci (23-CV-P) | 05/19/2023 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on unified bar admission in district courts | Pending consideration |
| Committee on Federal Procedure of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association (Gregory K. Arenson, Esq.) (03-CV-A) | 03/04/2003 | Civil | Rule 50(b) | Considered |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (17-CV-J) | 03/28/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| Matthew P. Millea (17-CV-GG) | 07/17/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Brian Devine (19-CV-P) | 06/25/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| John C. Ireland (17-CV-III) | 07/24/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Sai (19-CV-FF) | 10/25/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking on Official Capacity Parties | Considered |
| Christina Stephenson (17-CV-OOOO) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| NW Consumer Law Center (15-CV-W) | 05/13/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (17-CV-RRRRR) | 08/10/2017 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Robert M. Miller (15-CV-JJ) | 10/26/2015 | Civil | Electronic Case Filing for Pro Se Litigants | Pending consideration |
| Professor David J. Sharpe (07-CV-D) | 05/06/2008 | Civil | Admiralty Rules | Considered |
| Sai (20-CV-Y) | 08/24/2020 | Civil | Rule 60 | Considered |
| Sen. Ron Wyden (22-CV-S) | 08/04/2022 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on redaction of SSNs | Pending consideration |
| Patrick Borchers (18-CV-E) | 01/23/2018 | Civil | Rule 4(k)(2) | Pending consideration |