How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 2001 / Served to 2010

David Gorbaty

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

David Gorbaty was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2010 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Gorbaty authored 206 published opinions for the court (2001–2010), plus 11 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Griffin (50 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. 90 of these were attributed to Gorbaty 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
2003	State v. Griffin	838 So. 2d 34	50
2002	State v. Lee	826 So. 2d 616	25
2010	State v. CASSIMERE	34 So. 3d 954	23
2003	Seither v. Winnebago Industries, Inc.	853 So. 2d 37	20
2004	State v. Wischer	885 So. 2d 602	19
2007	Meckstroth v. La. Dept. of Transp. and Dev.	962 So. 2d 490	18
2004	State v. Ashford	878 So. 2d 798	18
2003	State v. Bell	854 So. 2d 429	17
2002	Harris v. Sternberg	819 So. 2d 1134	17
2010	Crutcher-Tufts Resources, Inc. v. Tufts	38 So. 3d 987	16
2001	State v. Handy	779 So. 2d 103	15
2009	Fortier v. Hughes	15 So. 3d 1185	14
2004	Davis v. BOARD OF SUP'RS OF LA. STATE UNIV.	887 So. 2d 722	13
2003	State v. Bradford	846 So. 2d 880	13
2010	State v. Watts	41 So. 3d 625	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 221 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 Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was David Gorbaty on?: David Gorbaty was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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