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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1975 / Served to 2003

Eugene M. Premo

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Eugene M. Premo was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1975–2003 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1988	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Premo authored 202 published opinions for the court (1985–2010), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Falcone & Fyke (526 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. 19 of these were attributed to Premo 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
2008	In Re Marriage of Falcone & Fyke	164 Cal. App. 4th 814	526
2008	Amtower v. Photon Dynamics, Inc.	71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 361	156
2005	Oakland Raiders v. National Football League	32 Cal. Rptr. 3d 266	130
2002	People v. Muhammed C.	116 Cal. Rptr. 2d 21	113
2007	Thompson Pacific Construction Inc. v. City of Sunnyvale	66 Cal. Rptr. 3d 175	104
2001	People v. Vargas	110 Cal. Rptr. 2d 210	102
1996	Brookwood v. Bank of America	45 Cal. App. 4th 1667	102
2007	People v. Johnson	59 Cal. Rptr. 3d 405	98
2005	Melendrez v. D & I INVESTMENT, INC.	26 Cal. Rptr. 3d 413	92
2002	Cucuzza v. City of Santa Clara	128 Cal. Rptr. 2d 660	81
2009	In Re Marriage of Alter	171 Cal. App. 4th 718	78
2005	Siam v. Kizilbash	31 Cal. Rptr. 3d 368	77
2004	People v. Gipson	12 Cal. Rptr. 3d 478	75
2000	LUDGATE INS. COMPANY, LTD v. Lockheed Martin Corp.	98 Cal. Rptr. 2d 277	70
2009	DVD Copy Control Assn., Inc. v. Kaleidescape, Inc.	176 Cal. App. 4th 697	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 209 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 California Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Eugene M. Premo on?: Eugene M. Premo was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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