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Sonia Sotomayor (2013)

Associate justice since Aug. 8, 2009

Positions

Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.

No positions

Agreements

Agreements include any agreements into which a justice has entered, such as employment contracts, continuing payments from former employers and continuing participation in employee welfare or benefit plans maintained by a former employer.

No agreements

Noninvestment income

Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

No non-investment-income

Spousal income

Spousal income includes earned income from jobs a justice’s spouse has held, as well as honoraria. Justices are required to report a spouse’s income that exceeded $1,000 but are not required to disclose specific amounts.

No spouse-income

Travel Reimbursements

Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values. Show more.

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Date Source Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
Oct. 1 – 3, 2013 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Ceremony

Acceptance of DuBois Medal

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Sept. 8 – 10, 2013 Touro University New York, NY Academic - Other, Ceremony

Acceptance of the Bruce K. Gould Award and discussion with students

Food, Transportation
June 11 – 12, 2013 Marymount School of New York New York, NY Speaking

Commencement address

Food, Transportation
May 30 – June 2, 2013 Cardinal Spellman High School Bronx, NY Speaking, Teaching

Commencement speech and meeting with students

Food, Transportation
May 18 – 20, 2013 Yale University New Haven, CT Ceremony

Commencement address and acceptance of honorary degree

Food, Lodging, Transportation
May 1 – 2, 2013 Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center Denver, CO Speaking

Keynote address

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Sept. 19, 2013 University of Delaware Wilmington, DE Academic - Other

Question and answer discussion with students

Food, Transportation
Feb. 2, 2013 Hostos Community College Bronx, NY Academic - Other

Question and answer discussion

Food, Transportation

Gifts

Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts worth more than $166 and whose aggregate value with other gifts from the same source exceed $415 within the reporting period, generally a calendar year. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete. Show more.

No gifts

Liabilities

Liabilities include debts that exceeded $10,000 at any time during the reporting period for justices, their spouses or their dependent children. Because justices have to report these each year, some debts may show up multiple times in the table. Show more.

Creditor Description Value
Discover Credit card $0 – $15,000
Visa Credit card $0 – $15,000
Mastercard Credit card $0 – $15,000
American Express Credit card $0 – $15,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mortgage

Rental property, New York, NY

$250,001 – $500,000

Investments

Investments include cash accounts, property, stocks, investment funds, retirement plans and other financial instruments owned by justices, their spouses and dependent children in excess of certain value thresholds or generating more than $200 in income in a year. Justices are not required to disclose information about their personal residences unless they generate rental income.

ProPublica has not extracted investments data for 2013. For information about Sonia Sotomayor’s investments, view the filing.

Additional Information or Explanations

Additional information or explanations include a justice’s explanatory comments clarifying other portions of the report. These may include explanations of apparent inconsistencies with previous reports, third-party opinions on possible conflicts of interest or other supporting documentation.

-Part 111 - As I received no "Non-Investment Income” in 2013, Part 111 is marked “None”. I have been advised by the Knopf Doubleday Group, publisher of my memoir, “My Beloved World”, that it disbursed $26,858.49 during 2013 to promote the sale of the memoir. Those disbursements included the payment of expenses to third parties (e.g. transportation and lodging) in support of appearances 1 made in various locations in the United States, including a trip to Puerto Rico in April 2013.

I have also been advised that Vintage Books, an affiliate of Knopf Doubleday Group, disbursed $2,369.80 during 2013 to support the promotion of the paperback edition of “My Beloved World”, which was released in January, 2014.

-Part IV, Item 1. - In conjunction with my visit to Hostos Community College, Knopf Doubleday Group sponsored 4 sales promotion of “My Beloved World”.

- Part V, Gifts - During 2013 many people sent me gifts of books, art, jewelry and memorabilia. I have no reason to believe that any of those items exceeded the $350.00 limit. If I should learn otherwise, I will amend this form.

About The Data

The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)

Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.

In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.

After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].

More from Friends of the Court

ProPublica has reported that justices have sometimes failed to disclose speaking engagements and gifts like private jet travel and luxury vacations from wealthy and influential people. Read our series: Friends of the Court.

Do you have any tips on the courts? Contact us securely or reach out to ProPublica reporters Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan.

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