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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABA Section of Litigation/Members of the Council and Federal Practice Task Force (16-CV-A) | 01/26/2016 | Civil | Rules 30 and 45 | Considered |
| B. Sachau (08-CV-A) | 07/30/2008 | Civil | Rules 30, 33 & 36 | Considered |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (14-BK-E) | 07/18/2014 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3001, 5003 and 9036 | Considered |
| Hon. Robert J. Kressel (03-BK-B) | 07/09/2003 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3007, 5005(c), 7004(b)(3) | Considered |
| Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System (19-BK-A) | 01/15/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3011 and 9006(b) | Considered |
| Patricia L. Meravi (01-BK-C) | 01/23/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rules 3017.1, 7023.1, and 7023.2 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan P. Graber (15-CR-C) | 08/07/2015 | Criminal | Rules 32.1 and 23 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (18-AP-A) | 03/20/2018 | Appellate | Rules 35 and 40 and length limits for responses to rehearing petitions | Considered |
| Department of Justice (18-AP-B) | 04/06/2018 | Appellate | Rules 35 and 40, comprehensive review | Considered |
| Professor Linda A. Malone (05-CR-A) | 03/03/2005 | Criminal | Rules 4 & 5 (Vienna Convention) | Considered |
| Catherine M. Riga (17-AP-A) | 03/30/2017 | Appellate | Rules 4 and 27 | Considered |
| Dennis Brock (19-CV-N) | 04/02/2019 | Civil | Rules 4 and 5 | Considered |
| Kenneth A. Lazarus, Esq. (08-EV-A) | 12/29/2008 | Evidence | Rules 407, 702, & 707 | Considered |
| Hon. Tommy E. Miller (00-CR-E) | 12/11/2000 | Criminal | Rules 42 & 58 (Federal Courts Improvement Act) | Considered |
| Committee on Federal Courts of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (13-CV-E) | 04/03/2013 | Civil | Rules 45 and 30 | Considered |
| David R. Fine, Esq. (04-CV-A) | 01/15/2004 | Civil | Rules 5 & 6 | Considered |
| Department of Justice (Hon. Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General) (10-CR-A) | 02/26/2010 | Criminal | Rules 5 and 58 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CV-EE) | 09/07/2015 | Civil | Rules 5 and 7 | Considered |
| Craig C. Reilly, Esq. (03-CV-E) | 08/06/2003 | Civil | Rules 54 & 72 | Considered |
| Hon. James T. Trimble, Jr. (04-CR-B) | 04/07/2004 | Criminal | Rules 6 & 31 | Considered |
| Irwin H. Warren, Esq. (03-CV-C) | 06/26/2003 | Civil | Rules 6 & 62 | Considered |
| Hon. Erik P. Kimball (11-BK-I) | 10/13/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008 and 7012 | Considered |
| Hon. Richard S. Schmidt (12-BK-E) | 03/05/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rules 7008, 7012, 9014 and 9027 | Considered |
| Kenneth A. Lazarus, Esq. and Professor Paul Rothstein (08-CV-C) | 10/27/2008 | Civil | Rules 8, 12, 16 & 37 | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) Working Group (06-BK-D) | 08/18/2006 | Bankruptcy | Rules 8006, 8007 | Considered |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (23-BK-C) | 02/27/2023 | Bankruptcy | Rules 9014, 9017, and proposed new Rule 7043 | |
| Hon. Julie A. Robinson (12-CV-D) | 08/20/2012 | Civil | Rules concerning service; Notice of electronic filing as certificate of service | Considered |
| Hon. Michael M. Baylson (14-CR-D) | 04/15/2014 | Criminal | Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases | Considered |
| Robert B. Katz, Esq. (12-BK-F) | 04/17/2012 | Bankruptcy | Schedules I and J | Considered |
| Hon. Joel M. Flaum (06-CR-E) | 06/19/2006 | Criminal | Sealed Cases | Considered |