How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1977 / Served to 1986

Arnold L. Fein

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Arnold L. Fein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1989
Tenure: 1977–1986 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fein authored 176 published opinions for the court (1969–1986), plus 49 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Foley v. Roche (491 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. 255 of these were attributed to Fein 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
1979	Foley v. Roche†	68 A.D.2d 558	491
1979	Stainless, Inc. v. Employers Fire Insurance†	69 A.D.2d 27	120
1984	Lewis v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority· Concurrence†	99 A.D.2d 246	115
1981	Schiavone Construction Co. v. Elgood Mayo Corp.†	81 A.D.2d 221	85
1979	American Home Assurance Co. v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey†	66 A.D.2d 269	54
1982	Veras v. Truth Verification Corp.†	87 A.D.2d 381	53
1978	People v. Jones†	62 A.D.2d 356	50
1982	Royal Globe Insurance v. Chock Full O'Nuts Corp.†	86 A.D.2d 315	45
1981	Ginsberg v. Fairfield-Noble Corp.†	81 A.D.2d 318	42
1970	MC GRADY v. Rosenbaum	62 Misc. 2d 182	42
1978	Spadaccini v. Dolan†	63 A.D.2d 110	41
1979	APS Food System, Inc. v. Ward Foods, Inc.†	70 A.D.2d 483	40
1984	Sementilli v. Sementilli†	102 A.D.2d 78	39
1979	Bader & Bader v. Ford†	66 A.D.2d 642	39
1978	City of New York v. Friedberg†	62 A.D.2d 407	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 257 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 New York Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Arnold L. Fein on?: Arnold L. Fein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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9 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).