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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Bashman, Esq. (10-AP-E) | 04/01/2010 | Appellate | In response to Vanderwerf v. Smithkline Beecham Corp. | Considered |
| Bryan A. Garner (17-AP-B) | 01/12/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Steven A. Hirsch (17-AP-D) | 04/14/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Hon. Jennifer A. Dorsey (17-AP-C) | 04/11/2017 | Appellate | Rule 28 | Considered |
| Eric Bravo (16-AP-C) | 09/30/2016 | Appellate | Rule 32.1 and 35 | Considered |
| Catherine M. Riga (17-AP-A) | 03/30/2017 | Appellate | Rules 4 and 27 | Considered |
| Thomas L. Wright (16-AP-A) | 02/12/2016 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (16-AP-B). (See also, 16-AP-A, Suggestion from Thomas L. Wright) | 03/28/2016 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Sai (15-AP-E) | 09/07/2015 | Appellate | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Gregory Sisk (15-AP-F) | 04/13/2015 | Appellate | Recovery of Appellate Docketing Fee after Reversal | Considered |
| Amy M. Smith, Esq. (11-AP-F) | 12/07/2011 | Appellate | Consider amendment authorizing discretionary interlocutory appeals from attorney-client privilege rulings | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, Esq. (11-AP-E) | 11/14/2011 | Appellate | Rule 4 | Considered |
| Harvey D. Ellis, Jr., Esq. (11-AP-C) | 07/18/2011 | Appellate | FRAP 3(d)(1) | Considered |
| R. Shawn Gunnarson, Esq. and Alexander Dushku, Esq. (11-AP-A) | 02/17/2011 | Appellate | Rule 32(a)(7)(B)(iii) | Considered |
| Paul Alan Levy (10-AP-I) | 11/30/2010 | Appellate | Redactions | Considered |
| Paul Ramshaw (15-AP-D) | 08/07/2015 | Appellate | Rule 3 | Considered |
| Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton (10-AP-B) | 03/01/2010 | Appellate | Rule 28(a) | Considered |
| Margaret Morris (14-AP-C) | 07/01/2014 | Appellate | Consider Rulemaking in Response to Specific Litigation | Considered |
| Honorable Jon O. Newman (14-AP-B) | 01/04/2014 | Appellate | Standard for Appellate Review of Sentencing Errors | Considered |
| Hon. S. Martin Teel, Jr. (13-AP-D) | 02/09/2013 | Appellate | Rules 3 and 6 | Considered |
| Roy T. Englert, Jr., Esq (13-AP-B) | 03/18/2013 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D. (13-AP-A) | 03/15/2013 | Appellate | Rule 29 | Considered |
| Brian T. Fitzpatrick (12-AP-F) | 08/22/2012 | Appellate | Rule 42 | Considered |
| Steven Finell, Esq. (Council of Appellate Lawyers) (12-AP-C) | Appellate | Rule 28 and 28.1 | Considered | |
| Peter Goldberger (NACDL) (12-AP-B) | 02/14/2012 | Appellate | Form 4 | Considered |
| Catherine T. Struve, Reporter (15-AP-B) | 04/09/2015 | Appellate | Rule 26 | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-H) | 10/26/2015 | Appellate | Electronic Case Filing for Pro Se Litigants | Considered |
| Appellate Rules Advisory Committee (15-AP-C) | 04/23/2015 | Appellate | Rule 31 | Considered |
| Alan B. Morrison (15-AP-G) | 05/07/2015 | Appellate | Discretionary Appeals of Interlocutory Orders | Considered |
| Robert M. Miller (15-AP-A) | 03/09/2015 | Appellate | Availability of ECF for use by Pro Se Litigants | Considered |