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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Justice (21-CR-J) | 09/13/2021 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Gregory W. Carman (03-CR-E) | 10/27/2003 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Professor Carrie Leonetti (11-CR-A) | 06/13/2011 | Criminal | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Donald Molloy (21-CR-A)(Rule 16) | 01/14/2021 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Collins Fitzpatrick (18-CR-C) | 05/03/2018 | Criminal | Rule 43(a) | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CR-E) | 06/19/2006 | Criminal | Sealed Cases | Considered |
| New York Council of Defense Lawyers (14-CR-E) | 10/17/2014 | Criminal | Rule 35 | Considered |
| Hon. Richard Wesley (15-CR-F) | 10/26/2015 | Criminal | Rule 5, Rules Governing Section 2255 [& 2254] Proceedings | Considered |
| Aaron Ahern (18-CR-A) | 02/08/2018 | Criminal | Considered | |
| Steve Allen (03-CR-F) | 11/05/2003 | Criminal | Habeas Corpus Rule 9 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert E. Jones (11-CR-B) | 07/06/2011 | Criminal | Rule 24(b) | Considered |
| Sai (19-CR-A) | 06/27/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Pending consideration |
| Honorable Thomas Parker (20-CR-G) | 05/20/2020 | Criminal | Videoconferencing | Considered |
| Hon. Anthony J. Battaglia (06-CR-F) | 08/15/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32.1 & 46 | Considered |
| Gerald Gleeson (21-CR-D) | 04/14/2021 | Criminal | Proposed rule permitting plea of guilty by reason of insanity | Pending consideration |
| Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr. (03-CR-G) | 11/26/2003 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr. (11-CR-C) | 10/20/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) (amendment regarding historically significant grand jury material) | Considered |
| Sai (15-CR-D) | 09/07/2015 | Criminal | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Jeremy A. Bell (00-CR-D) | 11/20/2000 | Criminal | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Ninth Circuit Judicial Council Pacific Islands Committee (Sally Pym) (06-CR-G) | 09/19/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan P. Graber (15-CR-C) | 08/07/2015 | Criminal | Rules 32.1 and 23 | Considered |
| Carter B. Harrison IV (18-CR-F) | 08/30/2018 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (04-CR-A) | 03/17/2004 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Allison M. Zieve, Esq. ( Public Citizen Litigation Group) (11-CR-D) | 12/15/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Grimm (17-CR-D) | 12/01/2017 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Tommy E. Miller (00-CR-E) | 12/11/2000 | Criminal | Rules 42 & 58 (Federal Courts Improvement Act) | Considered |
| Federal Defender Sentencing Guideline Committee (Jon M. Sands) (06-CR-H) | 10/24/2006 | Criminal | Rule 32(h) | Considered |
| Michael Blasie (18-CR-B) | 03/10/2018 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Hon. James T. Trimble, Jr. (04-CR-B) | 04/07/2004 | Criminal | Rules 6 & 31 | Considered |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (23-CR-B) | 03/10/2023 | Criminal | Rule 23(a) | Pending consideration |