Goodwin H Liu: 2024 Annual statement

Annual 2024: Judge, Supreme Court of California · due 2025-03-03
Filed: 2025-02-24 · signed 02/24/2025 09:49 PM
Source: Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (6 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Travel payments

Lists $17,460.61 in travel paid by others (12 payments)

Largest: Travel reimbursement - New Haven, CT ($6,056.95, Yale University), Travel reimbursement - Cambridge, MA ($3,697.21, Harvard University), Travel reimbursement - New York, NY ($2,168.47, Hofstra University). 12 of 12 are listed as gifts.

What to check

Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.

Rule: Travel paid by others

“Travel payments from third parties (not your employer).”Form 700 (2025/2026), Types of reportable interests ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Schedule C · Income and business positions 3

Source	Income
Columbia University Educational institution · Lecturer · Columbia Law School	$10,001–$100,000 Salary
Harvard University Educational institution · Lecturer · Harvard Law School	$10,001–$100,000 Salary
James Irvine Foundation Charitable foundation · Director · 1 Bush Street #800, San Francisco, CA 94104	$1,001–$10,000 Salary

Schedule E · Travel paid by others 12

Paid by	Trip	Amount
Forum for the Future of Higher Education · 501(c)(3) One Main Street, Cambridge, MA	Travel reimbursement for 6/13-14/2023 - Aspen, CO · 2024-01-30 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$600.06
Columbia University · 501(c)(3) 615 West 131st Street, New York, NY	Travel reimbursement - New York, NY · 2024-01-07 to 2024-01-12 · Teaching at Columbia Law School · Gift	$1,264.01
Asian American Bar Association of Chicago · 501(c)(3) 321 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL	Travel reimbursement for 11/1/23 - Chicago, IL · 2024-01-23 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$810.89
Spencer Foundation · 501(c)(3) 625 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL	Travel reimbursement - Los Angeles, CA · 2024-01-23 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$339.35
University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI	Travel reimbursement - Ann Arbor, MI · 2024-03-24 to 2024-03-25 · Judge moot court finals · Gift	$164.09
Stanford Club of Pasadena 1390 S Marengo Ave, Pasadena, CA	Travel reimbursement - Los Angeles, CA · 2024-06-04 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$77.11
Brennan Center for Justice · 501(c)(3) 120 Broadway, Suite 1750, New York, NY	Travel reimbursement - New York, NY · 2024-02-07 to 2024-02-09 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$1,076.95
Hofstra University · 501(c)(3) School of Law, Hempstead, NY	Travel reimbursement - New York, NY · 2024-04-15 to 2024-04-17 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$2,168.47
University of Southern California · 501(c)(3) School of Law, Los Angeles, CA	Travel reimbursement - Los Angeles, CA · 2024-05-09 to 2024-05-10 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$605.52
National Judicial College · 501(c)(3) Judicial College Building, Reno, NV	Travel reimbursement - Boston, MA · 2024-11-13 to 2024-11-15 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$600
Harvard University · 501(c)(3) Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA	Travel reimbursement - Cambridge, MA · 2024-09-09 to 2024-09-19 · Teaching · Gift	$3,697.21
Yale University · 501(c)(3) Yale Law School, New Haven, CT	Travel reimbursement - New Haven, CT · 2024-09-04 to 2024-09-06 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$6,056.95