Joan B. Gottschall

Vanguard Wellington Fund — Int/Div

Vanguard Wellesley Fund — Int/Div

Vanguard Index Trust — Int/Div

Vanguard Prime Portfolio — Int/Div

Yan Kampen Emerging Growth Fund — Int/Div

Eaton Vance Muni Bond Fund — Int/Div

US Treasury Strip (11-13-09) — None

Fed Empl Credit Union Accts — Interest

IBM common stock — Int/Div

Pimco Total Return Fund — Int/Div — Sell

Sr.Hi Inc Port — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class A — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class B — Int/Div

Munder Net Net Fund — None

Flextronics ¢/stock — None

Hewlett-Packard ¢/stock — Int/Div

ADVP c/stock — None — Merger — Caremark c/steck

Dycom c/stock — None

MVSN co/stock — None

MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund B — None

Putnam New Value Fund — Int/Div

MEFS Utilities Fund — Int/Div

MFS Govt Securities Fund — Int/Div

MFS Value Fund B — Int/Div

MFS Large Cap Growth — None

Morgan Stanley Active Asscts Money Trist — Int/Div — d — *passim

Merober, Visiting Committee to the Divinity School, University of Chicago

Member, Board of Barecio s, Illinois Humanities Council

Member, Board of Direchrs, Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School

4, Chair, Distict Sclechon Conumities, The Rhodes Trust

Gift — Umon League Club of Chicago — Reduced annual dues for udges

Spouse's income — Oll AE 1.

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2norable Jean B.

Cottschall

United States District Court

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois

60604

Re:

t No.

828

Dear Judge Gottschall:

In 1986,

1987,

and 1988 you,

along with

edited and proofread a manuscript on a non-legal subje

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The manuscript was published as a book by

SEE. hc book is selling well enough to produce income for its

publisher, author, and editors.

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

and you.

After the partnership is

formed,

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 arrangement without trancgressing 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

ror

on non-legal subjects."

The Committee believes that

editing and proofreading

are

activities covered by the word

wwriting."

And the Committee has approved,

at least implicitly,

Advisory Opinion No.

55.

the receipt of income from writing.

There are restrictiens 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