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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1974 / Active

Ernest Nathan Morial

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Ernest Nathan Morial is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–1989
Tenure: Since 1974 · 52 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Xavier University of Louisiana
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Morial authored 137 published opinions for the court (1974–2026), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Kerner v. Gilt (40 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. 123 of these were attributed to Morial 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
1974	Kerner v. Gilt	296 So. 2d 428	40
1975	Tassin v. Allstate Insurance Company	310 So. 2d 680	22
1975	Sykes v. Sykes	308 So. 2d 816	18
1974	West End Landing, Inc. v. Board of Levee Com'rs	299 So. 2d 418	14
1977	Teal v. Allstate Ins. Co.	348 So. 2d 83	13
1974	DeBose v. Trapani	295 So. 2d 72	13
1975	Finn v. Ponsaa	308 So. 2d 352	12
1974	Ford Motor Credit Company v. Blackwell	295 So. 2d 522	12
1974	Mandella v. Russo	294 So. 2d 598	10
1975	Carter v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.	308 So. 2d 472	9
1975	Jones v. Decuers	320 So. 2d 348	8
1975	Foreman v. Hines	314 So. 2d 460	8
1974	Kemp v. Jefferson Parish School Board· Concurrence†	305 So. 2d 744	7
1977	Halford v. Republic Underwriters Ins. Co.	348 So. 2d 87	6
1976	Baldo v. Thibodaux	324 So. 2d 457	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 157 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 is Ernest Nathan Morial on?: Ernest Nathan Morial is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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52 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).