Joan B. Gottschall

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 — Int/Div

Eaton Vance Muni Bond Fund — Int/Div

US Treasury Strip (11-15- 9) — None

Fed Empl Credit Union Accts — Interest

IBM common stock — Int/Div

ML Global Bond Focus Fund (name now is ML Core Bond Fnd' — Int/Div — Sell

Pimco Total Retum Fund — Int/Div — Buy

Sr.Hi Inc Port. — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class A — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class B — Int/Div

Mercury HW Intern Value Fnd — Int/Div — Sell

Alliance Premier Growth Fund — None — Sold

Munder Net Net Fund — None

AOL Time Wamer c/stock (now Time Wamer c/stock) — None — change: Time Wamer

Intel cfstock — Int/Div

Waste Management c/stock — Int/Div

Vanguard Tax-Managed Growth & Income Fund — Int/Div

Flextronics c/stock — None

Hewlett-Packard c/stock — Int/Div

ETrade Tx-Ex Money Market Fund — Int/Div — Sell

ADVP c/stock — None

Dycom c/stock — None

MVSN c/stock — None

Seligman Tef Nat! Tax Ex Ser — Int/Div — Sell

MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund B — None

Putnam New Value Fund — Int/Div

MEFS Utilities Fund — Int/Div

MEFS Govt Securities Fund — Int/Div

MEFS Value Fund B — Int/Div

MEFS Large Cap Growth — None

Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund — Int/Div

Fund — Int/Div — more

Stanley (MS) US Govt Sec. Fund — Int/Div — Buy — overlooked '02

Member, Visiting Committee #0 the Divinity School, University of Chicago

Member, Board of Directors, Nlinois Humanities Council

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

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The uonorable Joan B. CGotts~hall

United States District Court

219 South Dearborn ‘Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Re: Docket No. 828

Dear Judge Gottschall:

In 1986, 1%87, and 1688 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

$Y The book is selling well enough to produce income for its

publisher, author, and editors.

Your GIES vho 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, it 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 rcle 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 arzz2

ae

bold

cnent without €rancgressing either the

Code of Conduct for United States Judges or the Ethics Reform Act

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.

of 1989.

The reoeipt off incons from writing or editing a book is

permitted under the Code of Conduct.

Canon 5A says, "A judge may

write

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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,

the receipt of income from writing.

Advisory Opinion No.

55.

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 cf the book.

Nor is there anything about the nature of the