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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sai (15-AP-E) | 09/07/2015 | Appellate | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Sai (15-BK-I) | 09/07/2015 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Sai (15-CR-D) | 09/07/2015 | Criminal | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Gerald Gleeson (21-CR-D) | 04/14/2021 | Criminal | Proposed rule permitting plea of guilty by reason of insanity | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-AP-C) | 06/27/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Pending consideration |
| Sai (19-CV-Q) | 06/27/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Considered |
| Sai (19-CR-A) | 06/27/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning IFP Qualification | Pending consideration |
| Joint Suggestion from 48 General Counsel (19-CV-AA) | 10/03/2019 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking concerning MDL cases | Pending consideration |
| Nora Freeman Engstrom (19-CV-C) | 01/22/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| John H. Beisner (18-CV-BB) | 11/21/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (17-CV-RRRRR) | 08/10/2017 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Brian Devine (19-CV-CC) | 10/21/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-T) | 05/25/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Brian Devine (19-CV-P) | 06/25/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Washington Legal Foundation (17-CV-CCCCCC) | 09/27/2017 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| American Association for Justice (18-CV-I) | 02/22/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Washington Legal Foundation (19-CV-X) | 09/23/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (18-CV-J) | 04/06/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Zachary Clopton (18-CV-Y) | 10/26/2018 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning MDL Cases | Pending consideration |
| Fred Wilcon (19-CV-II) | 12/24/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking Concerning Subpoenas | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (20-CV-AA) | 09/09/2020 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking for multidistrict litigation | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-BK-L) | 10/30/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking in Electronic Filing Deadline; Supplements 19-BK-H | Pending consideration |
| Akiva Shapiro, Lee R. Crain, and Amanda LeSavage (21-CV-F) | 03/17/2021 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on amicus filings | Considered |
| Hon. Audrey G. Fleissig (20-BK-E) | 01/15/2020 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on CM/ECF electronic signatures | Pending consideration |
| Michael Gieseke (23-BK-B) | 02/13/2023 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on corporate ownership disclosure requirements | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-AP-E) | 06/03/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-BK-H) | 06/03/2019 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-CR-C) | 06/03/2019 | Criminal | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Joseph Sanderson (19-AP-F) | 10/30/2019 | Appellate | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |
| Hon. Michael Chagares (19-CV-U) | 06/03/2019 | Civil | Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Filing Deadline | Pending consideration |