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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Zoldan (24-CV-L) | 06/06/2024 | Civil | Rules 50 and 52 | Pending consideration |
| Sen. John Cornyn & Sen. Thom Tillis (24-CV-M) | 07/11/2024 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (24-CV-N) | 07/25/2024 | Civil | Rule 43 and Rule 45 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CV-R) | 08/22/2024 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on standardizing page equivalents for words and lines | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CV-Q) | 08/22/2024 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on new federal common rules | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CV-P) | 08/22/2024 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on adopting common local rules into federal rules | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CV-O) | 08/22/2024 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on name styling | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (24-CV-S) | 09/10/2024 | Civil | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Ron Wyden (22-CR-B) | 08/04/2022 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on redaction of SSNs | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison (23-CR-A) | 02/23/2023 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on unified bar admission in district courts | Pending consideration |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (23-CR-B) | 03/10/2023 | Criminal | Rule 23(a) | Considered |
| Joshua Carback (23-CR-C) | 03/25/2023 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking regarding contempt proceedings | Pending consideration |
| Peter Geraci (23-CR-D) | 05/19/2023 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on unified bar admission in district courts | Pending consideration |
| Rep. Adam Schiff and Other Members of Congress (23-CR-E) | 08/03/2023 | Criminal | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| 20 Media Organizations (23-CR-F) | 10/05/2023 | Criminal | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison and Thomas Alvord (23-CR-G) | 12/21/2023 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on unified bar admission in district courts | Pending consideration |
| U.S. Department of Justice (24-CR-A) | 03/07/2024 | Criminal | Rule 49.1 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Brett Ludwig (24-CR-B) | 03/24/2024 | Criminal | Rule 43 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Zachary Bolitho (23-CR-H) | 11/27/2023 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice and the National Crime Victim Bar Association (24-CR-C) | 03/27/2024 | Criminal | Rule 49.1 | Pending consideration |
| Magistrate Judges Advisory Group (24-CR-D) | 05/14/2024 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CR-E) | 08/22/2024 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on name styling | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CR-F) | 08/22/2024 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on adopting common local rules into federal rules | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CR-G) | 08/22/2024 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on new federal common rules | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-CR-H) | 08/22/2024 | Criminal | Proposed rulemaking on standardizing page equivalents for words and lines | Pending consideration |
| 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (Gino G. Agnello) (00-CR-A) | 04/11/2000 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Congressman Jim Gibbons for Thomas Krummer (00-CR-B) | 03/21/2000 | Criminal | Rule 7 | Considered |
| Robert L. Byer and David R. Fine (00-CR-C) | 08/15/2000 | Criminal | Criminal Rules and Forms (AEDPA) | Considered |
| Jeremy A. Bell (00-CR-D) | 11/20/2000 | Criminal | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Hon. Tommy E. Miller (00-CR-E) | 12/11/2000 | Criminal | Rules 42 & 58 (Federal Courts Improvement Act) | Considered |