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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1993 / Served to 2010

Eugene L. Nardelli

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Eugene L. Nardelli was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1993–2010 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nardelli authored 93 published opinions for the court (1994–2010), plus 19 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: McDermott v. Coffee Beanery, Ltd. (110 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. 116 of these were attributed to Nardelli 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
2004	McDermott v. Coffee Beanery, Ltd.†	9 A.D.3d 195	110
2004	Sheila C. v. Povich†	11 A.D.3d 120	99
2010	GoSmile, Inc. v. Levine· Dissent†	81 A.D.3d 77	64
1999	Walentas v. Johnes	257 A.D.2d 352	60
2002	Frank v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.†	292 A.D.2d 118	51
2010	Applehead Pictures LLC v. Perelman†	80 A.D.3d 181	48
2003	Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Terk Technologies Corp.†	309 A.D.2d 22	47
1999	National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. Worley†	257 A.D.2d 228	45
1996	Jaffe v. Paramount Communications, Inc.†	222 A.D.2d 17	42
2003	Reed v. City of New York†	304 A.D.2d 1	40
2003	Schwartz v. Olshan Grundman Frome & Rosenzweig†	302 A.D.2d 193	40
2001	Ark Bryant Park Corp. v. Bryant Park Restoration Corp.†	285 A.D.2d 143	37
1995	Guillory v. Nautilus Real Estate, Inc.†	208 A.D.2d 336	34
2009	Cregan v. Sachs†	65 A.D.3d 101	31
2009	Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P.†	62 A.D.3d 71	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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 Eugene L. Nardelli on?: Eugene L. Nardelli was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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17 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).