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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Finell, Esq. (Council of Appellate Lawyers) (12-AP-C) | Appellate | Rule 28 and 28.1 | Considered | |
| Peter Goldberger (NACDL) (12-AP-B) | 02/14/2012 | Appellate | Form 4 | Considered |
| Catherine T. Struve, Reporter (15-AP-B) | 04/09/2015 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (22-AP-B) | 03/14/2022 | Appellate | Rule 29(a)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison (14-AP-A) | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered | |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (22-AP-C) | 09/01/2022 | Appellate | Rule 26.1 | Pending consideration |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-A) | 03/09/2015 | Appellate | Availability of ECF for use by Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| U.S. Department of Justice (17-AP-H) | 10/14/2017 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, and 12 | Considered |
| Sai (20-AP-B) | 05/20/2020 | Appellate | Rule 25 | Considered |
| Sai (20-AP-D) | 06/20/2020 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on IFP forms | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-AP-E) | 06/03/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Stephen E. Sachs (17-AP-F) | 11/14/2017 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Stephen E. Sachs (18-AP-D) | 08/13/2018 | Appellate | Rule 36 | Considered |
| Nico Ratkowski (19-AP-A) | 03/13/2019 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Betsy Shumaker (16-AP-E) | 09/23/2016 | Appellate | Rules 10, 11, 27, 30 | Considered |
| Gregory Sisk (15-AP-F) | 04/13/2015 | Appellate | Recovery of Appellate Docketing Fee after Reversal | Considered |
| Catherine M. Riga (17-AP-A) | 03/30/2017 | Appellate | Rules 4 and 27 | Considered |
| Hon. Jennifer A. Dorsey (17-AP-C) | 04/11/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-H) | 10/26/2015 | Appellate | Electronic Case Filing for Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| Andrew Straw (23-AP-J) | 11/15/2023 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on rules governing service and PACER access | Pending consideration |
| People United for Privacy Foundation (23-AP-E) | 03/28/2023 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-AP-D) | 07/09/2019 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Hon. Laura Myerson Isicoff (07-BK-F) | 11/26/2007 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 1 | Considered |
| Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Mark Thompson, Esaq.) (07-BK-G) | 11/26/2007 | Bankruptcy | 2019 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert Kressel (08-BK-B) | 03/11/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6003 | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (08-BK-C) | 04/08/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3003(c)(2) | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group (08-BK-D) | 04/24/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6003 | Considered |
| Hon. Frank Easterbrook (08-BK-E) | 06/16/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4004(d), Rule 7001(4) | Considered |
| Hon. John E. Waites (12-BK-I) | 04/10/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1006(b) | Considered |
| Alan N. Resnick (12-BK-H) | 03/21/2012 | Bankruptcy | New Rule 8018.1 | Considered |