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American College of Trial Lawyers

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11 Mentions

11 Reimbursements

American College of Trial Lawyers has been linked to six current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.

John Roberts
John Roberts
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Samuel Alito
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett
  • John Roberts 1 mention

    1 mention

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Sept. 12 – 17, 2006 London, United Kingdom Ceremony, Speaking

    Deliver lecture, accept honorary fellowship

    Air Transportation
  • Clarence Thomas 1 mention

    1 mention

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Feb. 2 – 12, 2012 Sea Island, GA Speaking

    Speech

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Samuel Alito 3 mentions

    3 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Sept. 17 – 20, 2016 Philadelphia, PA Conference/Symposium

    UK-US Legal Exchange

    Food, Lodging
    Sept. 4 – 11, 2015 London, United Kingdom Conference/Symposium

    UK-US Legal Exchange

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Sept. 25 – 27, 2009 Toronto, Canada Conference/Symposium

    Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Elena Kagan 1 mention

    1 mention

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 20 – 23, 2011 Palm Springs, CA Speaking

    Speech

    Air Transportation, Food, Hotel, Lodging
  • Neil Gorsuch 4 mentions

    4 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Aug. 26 – 27, 2021 Avon, CO Academic - Other, Speaking

    Speech and educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    March 1 – 5, 2019 La Quinta, CA Ceremony, Speaking

    Award and speech at conference

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Sept. 16 – 23, 2016 Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC Academic - Other

    Educational program, UK-US legal exchange

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Sept. 3 – 11, 2015 London, United Kingdom Academic - Other

    Educational legal exchange program

    Food, Hotel, Program, Transportation
  • Amy Coney Barrett 1 mention

    1 mention

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Sept. 13 – 18, 2022 Rome, Italy Speaking

    Annual meeting address

    Food, Lodging, Transportation

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.

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