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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Bogart (19-CV-F) | 02/20/2019 | Civil | Rule 26 | Pending consideration |
| Jerry Lowe (20-CV-W) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| American College of Trial Lawyers (17-CV-J) | 03/28/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Pending consideration |
| 19 Organizations (23-CV-T) | 08/31/2023 | Civil | Rule 77 | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-CR-D) | 10/30/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Public.Resource.org (Carl Malamud) (08-CV-D) | 10/30/2008 | Civil | Privacy Rules | Pending consideration |
| International Legal Finance Association (22-CV-O) | 10/03/2022 | Civil | Rule 16(c)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Patrick Borchers (18-CV-E) | 01/23/2018 | Civil | Rule 4(k)(2) | Pending consideration |
| Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy (22-CV-Q) | 07/05/2022 | Civil | Rule 53 | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa (21-CV-L) | 05/03/2021 | Civil | Third party litigation funding | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Catherine McEwen (22-CV-I) | 07/12/2022 | Civil | Rule 45 | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Johnson, Jr. (21-AP-C) | 02/23/2021 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-AP-C) | 06/27/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Pending consideration |
| Greg Patmythes (21-AP-A) | 01/18/2021 | Appellate | Rule 4 and Rule 6 | Pending consideration |
| Michael Gieseke (23-BK-B) | 02/13/2023 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on corporate ownership disclosure requirements | Pending consideration |
| Alvin White Jr. (20-CV-X) | 08/13/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| Prof. Amanda Shanor and the Brennan Center for Justice (23-CV-U) | 09/01/2023 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on civil case assignments | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-CV-DD) | 10/30/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Akua Asamoah (08-CV-E) | 12/05/2008 | Civil | New Form/Form Revision | Pending consideration |
| Product Liability Advisory Council (22-CV-P) | 10/05/2022 | Civil | Rule 16 | Pending consideration |
| Maria Diamond (22-EV-A) | 11/22/2022 | Evidence | Rule 611 | Pending consideration |
| Denise Richardson Crabbe (20-CV-L) | 07/19/2020 | Civil | Rule 5(d)(3)(B) | Pending consideration |
| National Bankruptcy Conference (23-BK-F) | Bankruptcy | Rule 3018 | Pending consideration | |
| Laura Bartell (22-BK-D) | 06/19/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rules 1007 and 5009(b) | Pending consideration |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Johnson, Jr. (22-AP-A) | 01/07/2022 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Pending consideration |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (18-AP-C) | 05/01/2018 | Appellate | Privacy Concern Regarding Social Security and Immigration Opinions | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Johnson, Jr. (11-CV-F) | 10/19/2011 | Civil | Civil Rule 11 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Baylson (23-CV-B) | 02/03/2023 | Civil | Rule 28 | Pending consideration |
| Sai (20-AP-E) | 08/24/2020 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Pending consideration |
| Committee on Rule Amendment at Cornell Law School (23-CV-V) | 09/15/2023 | Civil | Rule 12 | Pending consideration |