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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Audrey G. Fleissig (20-BK-E) | 01/15/2020 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on CM/ECF electronic signatures | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (15-CV-MM) | 11/03/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |
| Thomas Moers Mayer (21-BK-D) | 02/16/2021 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3007(c) | Considered |
| Hon. Frank Easterbrook (08-BK-E) | 06/16/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4004(d), Rule 7001(4) | Considered |
| Jonathan L. Gould (17-CV-OOO) | 07/26/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Debra Miller (11-BK-H) | 09/28/2011 | Bankruptcy | Deficiency Claims | Considered |
| Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States (Hon. John W. Lungstrum) (04-CR-C) | 08/02/2004 | Criminal | CM/ECF – Mandatory Electronic Filing | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (98-BK-A) | 01/16/1998 | Bankruptcy | Small Claims Procedure for Certain Adversary Proceedings | Considered |
| Mark Watson (17-AP-E) | 04/17/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Hon. Bruce Reinhart (21-CR-K) | 10/26/2021 | Criminal | Rule 5 | Considered |
| George Brent Mickum IV, Esq. (05-CV-C) | 06/01/2005 | Civil | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Mark Estes, Esq. (09-CV-B) | 06/21/2009 | Civil | Electronic Service | Considered |
| Wes Scott (20-BK-B) | 02/03/2020 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036 | Considered |
| Mike Bates, Esq. (14-BK-A) | 02/19/2014 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3002.1 and Official Form 10S1 | Considered |
| J. P. Kemp (17-CV-ZZ) | 07/20/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Douglas M. Neistat, Esq. (10-BK-F) | 07/28/2010 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6004-1(f) | Considered |
| American Bar Association Governmental Affairs Office (Robert D. Evans) (01-CR-B) | 03/02/2001 | Criminal | Rule 6 & 35 | Considered |
| Sai (15-CR-D) | 09/07/2015 | Criminal | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, California (Hon. A. Wallace Tashima) (03-CV-B) | 05/08/2003 | Civil | Rule 68 | Considered |
| Leto Copeley (17-CV-BBBBB) | 08/01/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr. (11-CR-C) | 10/20/2011 | Criminal | Rule 6(e) (amendment regarding historically significant grand jury material) | Considered |
| Gregory B. Jones (02-BK-D) | 03/08/2002 | Bankruptcy | Exhibit C to the Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition | Considered |
| Kevin P. Dempsey (17-BK-A) | 01/31/2017 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2013 | Considered |
| Paul Ramshaw (15-AP-D) | 08/07/2015 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Considered |
| Chris Fabricant/Innocence Project et al. (20-EV-X) | 10/16/2020 | Evidence | Rule 702 | Considered |
| Taylor King and Associates (17-CV-MM) | 07/18/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Timothy C. Bailey (17-CV-LLLL) | 07/31/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Hon. John E. Waites (12-BK-I) | 04/10/2012 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1006(b) | Considered |
| Ninth Circuit Judicial Council Pacific Islands Committee (Sally Pym) (06-CR-G) | 09/19/2006 | Criminal | Rule 41 | Considered |
| Raymond P. Bell (00-BK-A) | 01/18/2000 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(g), 3002(a) | Considered |