# Joan B. Gottschall > Federal judicial disclosures. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/21592 ## Record - **Judge:** Joan B. Gottschall - **Year:** 2006 - **Pages:** 10 ## Text Vanguard Wellington Fund — Int/Div Vanguard Wellesley Fund — Int/Div Vanguard Index Trust — Int/Div Vanguard Prime Portfolio — Int/Div Van Kampen Emerging Growth Fund (renamed Strategic Growth A) — None Eaton Vance Muni Bond Fund — Int/Div US Treasury Strip (11-15-09) — None Fed Empl Credit Union Accts — Interest IBM common stock — Int/Div Sr.Hi Inc Port.(renamed BlackRock Sr.Hi.Inc.) — Int/Div Viacom c/stock Class A — Int/Div — Redemption* — VIII, n.2 Viacom c/stock Class B — Int/Div — Redemption* — VIII, n.2 Munder Intemet Fund — None Time Warmer c¢/stock — Int/Div Intel ¢/stock — Int/Div Waste Management c¢/stock — Int/Div Vanguard Tax-Managed Growth & Income — Int/Div Fund Flextronics c/stock — None Hewlett-Packard c/stock — Int/Div Caremark c/stock — Int/Div Dycom c/stock (sold 1/16/07) — None MVSN c/stock — None MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund B — None Putnam New Value Fund — None MEFS Utilities Fund — Int/Div MFS Govt Securities Fund — Int/Div MFS Value Fund B — Int/Div MEFS Core Growth — None Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund — Int/Div MFS Govt Sec B — Int/Div Morgan Stanley (MS) US Govt Sec. Fund — Int/Div Mercury (now BlackRock) Large Cap Value — Int/Div Mercury (now BlackRock)Value Opportunities — Int/Div MS (now BlackRock) MuniEnhanced Fund — Interest CBS Cl. A c/stock (sold 5/07) — Int/Div — * — sh/for/sh dividend CBS Cl. B c/stock (sold 5/07) — Int/Div — sh/for/sh dividend MS Bank Dep. Program — Interest — Bought/sold — See VIII, n3 Member, Visiting Committee to the Divinity School, University of Chicago Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Humanities Council Chair, District Selection Committee, 52 ZF The Rhodes Trust 7 —< [@] _— ey B= a TT Member, Board of Directors, } X= aT Foundation for Law and Science Center5 1 <2 - ~~ ~ Ped Reimbursement — University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) Law School — Food, lodging and transportation at law school seminar Income — See Section VIII, note 1 — $0.00 Spouse's income — Reduced annual dues for judges — Union League Club of Chicago JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING, LOCKBOX 33 844 KINO STREKT Jupag R. Lanign Anogason. Hii WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19801 TELEPHONE Juoex Franxtin 8. BiLLinos, JR COM! (302) 873-8168 Juoerx Jonn P. Puttar MasisTRATE HEnay LL JonEs. Jr Juoex Jown B. Jones R. TOWNSEND ROBINSON Juoeg NaTwanigL A. Jones October 23, 1991 cCounNsEL Juoeg Rostnry C. Jones FT8: 633-8007 Juoeg Henry A. Pout: Juoeg Davio Baw Juoaeg Rosgar M. Tacasve! Juoet Josten Lb. Tauno Juoet Patricia M. WaLo Juoex Hinman H. Wano Juoar James 8. ZaoaL Jubak WALTER K. STarLETON CHalnMAN The Honorable Jean - . P Gottschall United States District Court 219 South Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60604 Re: Docket No. 828 Dear Judge Gottschall: In 1986, 1987, and 1988 you, along with your edited and proofread a manuscript on a non-legal subject written by your The manuscript was published as ‘a book by your The book is selling well enough to produce income for its publisher, author, and editors. Your who reside in Canada have proposed formation of a partnership under Canadian’ laws whose assets will be all the rights to the book. The partners will be your and you. After the partnership is formed, 1t will, in turn, be dissolved and the assets transferred to a canadian corporation whose shareholders will be the partners of the dissolved partnership. After the partnership is formed, your sole role will be to serve as a shareholder. As a sharehold- er, you will share in proceeds arising from the sales of the book and the use of the rights to the book. You ask whether you may participate in this arr Cte anoe — od aoe bw without trancsgressing either the Code of Conduct for United States Judges or the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The receipt of income from writing or editing a book is permitted under the Code of Conduct. Canon 5A says, "A judge may write . . on non-legal subjects." The Committee believes that editing and proofreading are activities covered by the word "writing." And the Committee has approved, at least implicitly, Advisory Opinion No. 55. the receipt of income from writing. There are restrictions on the manner in which a judge's name may ba used in the promotion of a book, but, we assume, these restrictions are not likely to be involved in your case since you are not the author and your name is unlikely to be used in connection with selling of the book. Nor is there anything about the nature of the --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/21592. Public record. Not legal advice.