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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Ippolito (22-BK-F) | 07/04/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7012(b) | Considered |
| Risner and Graham (17-CV-NN) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Colleen Brown (08-BK-I) | 08/22/2008 | Bankruptcy | Form 3B | Considered |
| U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform American Insurance Association American Tort Reform Association Lawyers for Civil Justice National Association of Manufacturers (14-CV-B) | 04/09/2014 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| J. Gordon Cooney Jr. and William Peterson (20-EV-S) | 09/30/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Hon. David Thuma (15-BK-G) | 08/14/2015 | Bankruptcy | Form 341 | Considered |
| Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP (17-CV-FFFF) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Professor Stephen D. Easton (00-CV-I) | 12/04/2000 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Public Citizen Litigation Group (Paul A. Levy, Esq.) (06-CV-B) | 03/17/2006 | Civil | Electronic Acknowl. of Service | Considered |
| Wayne R. Bodow (99-BK-C) | 03/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Attorney Fees in Chapter 13 Cases | Considered |
| Kelly D. Warfield (07-CR-C) | 10/29/2007 | Criminal | AEDPA Statute of Limitations | Considered |
| Gerald Gleeson (21-CR-D) | 04/14/2021 | Criminal | Proposed rule permitting plea of guilty by reason of insanity | Considered |
| Jonathan H. Stanwood (16-BK-G) | 05/02/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004 | Considered |
| Hon. S. Martin Teel, Jr. (14-BK-F) | 08/22/2014 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7004(a)(1) | Considered |
| James J. Curry, Jr., Esq. (13-CV-C) | 02/22/2013 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Baker & Hostetler LLP (06-BK-E) | 08/25/2006 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rule Allowing Increased Yield on Bankruptcy Estate Funds | Considered |
| McGinn, Carpenter, Montoya & Love (17-CV-AA) | 07/13/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Peter W. Bowie (11-BK-F) | 07/22/2011 | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy Rules 7012, 7004(e), and 9006(f) | Considered |
| Koji Fukumura, et al (18-CV-N) | 05/24/2018 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Thomas Mayer (20-BK-D) | 03/16/2020 | Bankruptcy | Rule 7007 | Considered |
| Hon. William R. Wilson, Jr. (04-CV-D) | 02/24/2004 | Civil | Discovery Rules | Considered |
| Forty-Five Professors (21-BK-B) | 01/29/2021 | Bankruptcy | Proposed amendment to Rule 7001 and new rule for certain turnover actions | Considered |
| James M. Burnham (16-CR-A) | 02/01/2016 | Criminal | Rule 12 | Considered |
| Jeffrey A. Pitman (17-CV-SSS) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| American Association for Justice (19-CV-J) | 03/28/2019 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Marcy J.K. Tiffany/DOJ (97-BK-B) | 03/06/1997 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 9 | Considered |
| Daniel DeWit (11-CV-B) | 08/25/2011 | Civil | Civil Rule 33 (Interrogatories) | Considered |
| Hon. Paul G. Cassell (05-CR-D) | 03/05/2005 | Criminal | Rule Consistency with the Crime Victims Rights Act | Considered |
| Steven Caley (17-CV-N) | 05/25/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Raymond Lyons (10-BK-D) | 03/29/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9006(d) | Considered |