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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard C. Friedman (02-BK-C) | 02/25/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8001 | Considered |
| Hon. Geraldine Mund (16-BK-F) | 05/02/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8006 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (21-BK-M) | 09/20/2021 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8006(g) | Pending consideration |
| Sai (24-EV-L) | 11/03/2024 | Evidence | Rule 801 | Pending consideration |
| Professor Sam Stonefield (10-EV-A) | 09/09/2010 | Evidence | Rule 801(d) | Considered |
| Peter Lushing (17-EV-C) | 09/26/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d) | Considered |
| American Association for Justice (17-EV-A) | 08/30/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d)(1)(A) | Considered |
| Innocence Project (17-EV-B) | 09/01/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d)(1)(A) | Considered |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (17-EV-D) | 10/12/2017 | Evidence | Rule 801(d)(1)(A) | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-A) | 03/10/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8014 | Considered |
| Prof. Kenneth N. Klee (15-BK-C) | 03/13/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8018 | Considered |
| Hon. Susan P. Graber (16-EV-A) | 01/21/2016 | Evidence | Rule 803 | Considered |
| Daniel Capra (23-EV-B) | 10/12/2023 | Evidence | Rule 803 | Pending consideration |
| Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (04-EV-A) | 08/10/2004 | Evidence | Rule 803 (Trustworthy Proviso) | Considered |
| Mark Wray (15-CV-A) | 01/17/2015 | Civil | Rule 81 | Pending consideration |
| Senators Tillis, Grassley, and Cornyn (21-CV-N) | 06/07/2021 | Civil | Rule 9 | Considered |
| A. Benjamin Spencer (20-CV-Z) | 08/28/2020 | Civil | Rule 9(b) | Considered |
| Robert R. Barnes (03-BK-C) | 07/07/2003 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9001 | Considered |
| Sai (19-BK-G) | 07/09/2019 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9006 | Considered |
| Jack Metzler (24-BK-P) | 10/10/2024 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9006(a) | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Raymond Lyons (10-BK-D) | 03/29/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9006(d) | Considered |
| John R. Getsinger (96-BK--) | 03/28/1996 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9009 | Considered |
| Walter C. Oney, Jr. (15-BK-J) | 12/14/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9009 and Official Forms | Considered |
| John J. Dilenschneider (97-BK-D) | 06/09/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9011(c)(2)(B) | Considered |
| Hon. William F. Stone, Jr. (09-BK-J) | 12/15/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9013, Rule 9014, Need for additional rules and forms for payment of administrative expenses. | Considered |
| Hon. Vincent Zurzolo (08-BK-H) | 08/22/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9014(b) | Considered |
| Hon. Catherine McEwen (22-BK-G) | 07/12/2022 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9016 | Pending consideration |
| Mediation Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute (17-BK-D) | 09/06/2017 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9019 | Considered |
| Hon. Gregory Frizzell (24-EV-K) | 10/22/2024 | Evidence | Rule 902 | Pending consideration |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (97-BK-A) | 02/19/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9020 | Considered |