# Joan B. Gottschall > Federal judicial disclosures. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/25781 ## Record - **Judge:** Joan B. Gottschall - **Year:** 2003 - **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 — 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 Gift — Union League Club of Chicago — Reduced annual dues for judges Income — See Section VIII, note 1 — AR Bg NALICA SUN == 8), po 0.00 BABA h WAM HIN Bw Th nn we 844 KING STREET Juoax R. LANIER Axsersox, {if WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19801 TRLZFHONE dusag Janu BF, PullaM dupa Francs 8. Sites, Ju, COM: 303) B73-4158 MasieTnATE HENnay L Jone Ja. - rESLs aT ee FiBL 487-C188 Juoue Jauw 8. Joues Jusar Hatnawer Ri. Jouss outber 23, 1991 A. TOWNSEND ROBINION ducer flosear C, Jeuse FTE: €32-8207 CounNstL Judat deurv A. Pours Jusas Davis Bam Juser Jaseru LL. Tavae Jusat Rosear M. Tazasue: Juosst PaThiciA HM, Ward ducer Minan H. Ware Juscat Jaugs 8. Saeki JUDO WaLTer K. STarLETON Craranan 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 . . 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 LI BE J 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 --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/25781. Public record. Not legal advice.