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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 2005 / Served to 2013

Angel A. Cortiñas

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Angel A. Cortiñas was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1962 · age 64
Tenure: 2005–2013 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cortiñas authored 36 published opinions for the court (2005–2013), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: T.P. v. Department of Children & Family Services (19 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 37 of these were attributed to Cortiñas by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2006	T.P. v. Department of Children & Family Services†	935 So. 2d 621	19
2007	Woodruff v. TRG-Harbour House, Ltd.†	967 So. 2d 248	10
2006	Giralt v. State†	935 So. 2d 599	8
2012	13 Parcels LLC v. Laquer†	104 So. 3d 377	6
2011	Giordano v. Romeo†	76 So. 3d 1100	6
2011	City of Aventura v. Masone†	89 So. 3d 233	5
2010	City of Sunny Isles Beach v. Temple B'Nai Zion, Inc.†	43 So. 3d 904	5
2012	S.L. v. State· Dissent†	96 So. 3d 1080	4
2011	Miami-Dade Police Department v. Forfeiture of $15,875.51†	54 So. 3d 595	3
2011	Miami-Dade County ex rel. Walthour v. Malibu Lodging Investments, LLC†	64 So. 3d 716	2
2011	Mario's Enterprises Painting & Wallcovering, Inc. v. Veitia Padron Inc.†	52 So. 3d 819	2
2007	Gonzalez v. Department of Business & Professional Regulation†	958 So. 2d 494	2
2006	Harden v. State†	932 So. 2d 1152	2
2011	State v. Brown†	77 So. 3d 693	1
2011	Sampson v. State†	88 So. 3d 209	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Angel A. Cortiñas on?: Angel A. Cortiñas was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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8 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).