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. 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 |
| Jack Metzler (24-CR-I) | 10/10/2024 | Criminal | Rule 45(a) | Pending consideration |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (24-CR-J) | 02/13/2024 | Criminal | Rule 17 | Pending consideration |
| Coalition of Media Organizations (24-CR-K) | 11/01/2024 | Criminal | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| Fix The Court (24-CR-L) | 11/04/2024 | Criminal | Rule 53 | 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 |
| Hon. Bernard Zimmerman (01-CR-A) | 01/29/2001 | Criminal | Rule 4 | Considered |
| American Bar Association Governmental Affairs Office (Robert D. Evans) (01-CR-B) | 03/02/2001 | Criminal | Rule 6 & 35 | Considered |
| Richard J. Douglas (01-CR-C) | 04/06/2001 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Carl E. Person (01-CR-D) | 06/28/2001 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Considered |
| Hon. D. Brock Hornby (02-CR-A) | 03/15/2002 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul L. Friedman (02-CR-B) | 04/02/2002 | Criminal | Rules 29, 33 & 34 | Considered |
| Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr. (02-CR-C) | 06/05/2002 | Criminal | Rule 11 | Considered |
| Hon. Ed Carnes (02-CR-D) | 04/15/2002 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert B. Collings (03-CR-A) | 01/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 40 | Considered |
| Hon. William F. Sanderson, Jr. (03-CR-B) | 03/04/2003 | Criminal | Rule 32.1 | Considered |
| Carl E. Person (03-CR-C) | 04/01/2003 | Criminal | Plea Bargaining | Considered |
| Hon. B. Janice Ellington (03-CR-D) | 07/24/2003 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Hon. Gregory W. Carman (03-CR-E) | 10/27/2003 | Criminal | Rule 32 | Considered |
| Steve Allen (03-CR-F) | 11/05/2003 | Criminal | Habeas Corpus Rule 9 | Considered |