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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas O'Toole (20-CV-S) | 08/04/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Eugene Volokh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (20-CV-T) | 08/06/2020 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| Janeth Ramos (20-CV-U) | 08/09/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (20-EV-I) | 03/02/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Cathy Ellis (20-CV-V) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Jerry Lowe (20-CV-W) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Alvin White Jr. (20-CV-X) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Sai (20-AP-E) | 08/24/2020 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Pending consideration |
| David Bernstein and Eric Lasker (20-EV-J) | 08/31/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Debra Baker (20-EV-K) | 09/03/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Pending consideration |
| Chubb Group of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies (20-CV-BB) | 09/29/2020 | Civil | Third-party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Patricia Barksdale (20-CV-CC) | 10/06/2020 | Civil | Rule 7.1 and Rule 73 | Pending consideration |
| John Hawkinson (20-CV-EE) | 10/17/2020 | Civil | Rule 12 and Rule 5 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (20-CV-II) | 12/21/2020 | Civil | Third Party Litigation Funding | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison (20-AP-G) | 12/10/2020 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Greg Patmythes (21-AP-A) | 01/18/2021 | Appellate | Rule 4 and Rule 6 | Pending consideration |
| Zachary Clopton and Andrew Hammond (21-CV-C) | 01/19/2021 | Civil | IFP Petitions | Pending consideration |
| John Siffert (21-CR-B) | 01/21/2021 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-B) | 02/09/2021 | Appellate | Proposed rulemaking on IFP forms | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Johnson, Jr. (21-AP-C) | 02/23/2021 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (21-CV-G) | 03/24/2021 | Civil | New Rule 5.3 | Pending consideration |
| International Legal Finance Association (21-CV-H) | 04/07/2021 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Alan Morrison (21-AP-D) | 04/13/2021 | Appellate | Rule 39 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CV-I) | 04/14/2021 | Civil | Rule 4(i) | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CV-J) | 04/14/2021 | Civil | Rule 5(d) | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-AP-E) | 04/14/2021 | Appellate | Rule 25 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (21-CR-E) | 04/14/2021 | Criminal | Rule 49 | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa (21-CV-L) | 05/03/2021 | Civil | Third party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| Donald Molloy (21-CR-A)(Rule 16) | 01/14/2021 | Criminal | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Jesse Furman and Hon. Philip Halpern (21-CV-O) | 06/21/2021 | Civil | Rule 41(a) | Pending consideration |