for the Seventh Circuit

2022 PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE PATTERN CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTIONS New

• 2022 Proposed Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
  
  The Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instruction Committee submits the attached proposed new and revised criminal pattern jury instructions for public comment. The proposed revised version of each instruction is redlined to reflect the proposed changes.
  
    • 2022 Proposed Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
  
  Please email your comments to jicomments@ca7.uscourts.gov, with a subject line of “Pattern Jury
  Instruction Comment.
  
  The Committee deadline to accept comments has been extended through August 1, 2022.
  
  

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PATTERN PATENT JURY INSTRUCTIONS

• Pattern Patent Jury Instructions   
  
  The 2020 revisions to Part 11 (Patents) of the Seventh Circuit’s Pattern Civil Jury Instructions have been approved for publication by the Circuit Council.
  
  
    •  Pattern Patent Jury Instructions (Part 11) of the Pattern Civil Jury Instructions
  
  
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PATTERN CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTIONS

• The William J. Bauer Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions (2020 edition)
  
  
  

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PATTERN CIVIL JURY INSTRUCTIONS

• 2020 Revised Pattern Jury Instruction for 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)

• 2021 Proposed Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
  
  The Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instruction Committee had submitted the proposed new and revised criminal pattern jury instructions for public comment. The proposed revised version of each instruction is redlined to reflect the proposed changes.
  
  [Comments were accepted through September 21, 2021.]

• The Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instruction Committee submitted the attached proposed revised criminal pattern jury instructions for 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) for public comment.
  
  The current instruction does not reflect the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019). The proposed revised version of the instruction is redlined to reflect the proposed changes.
  
  [Comments were accepted through December 10, 2019.]

• Pattern Patent Jury Instructions
  
  The proposed patent pattern civil jury instructions for the Seventh Circuit were offered for public comment by the Seventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction Committee and Patent Subcommittee. The committees, which include representatives of all significant perspectives, welcomed comment before submission to the Circuit Council for approval and promulgation.
  
  [Comments were accepted through July 22, 2020.]
  
  

• Pattern Civil Jury Instructions    [revised August, 2017]
  The Circuit’s Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions has, with the permission of the Circuit Council, revised Parts 6 and 7 of the earlier version. The Committee is continuing to revise and supplement the existing pattern instructions.