How do judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1976

G Joseph Tauro

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

G Joseph Tauro was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1994
Tenure: 1970–1976 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Tauro authored 186 published opinions for the court (1970–1976), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: PMP Associates, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co. (404 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. 48 of these were attributed to Tauro 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
1975	PMP Associates, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co.	321 N.E.2d 915	404
1975	Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc.	328 N.E.2d 505	335
1973	Mounsey v. Ellard	297 N.E.2d 43	335
1975	Commonwealth v. Mahnke	335 N.E.2d 660	218
1971	Pinnick v. Cleary· Concurrence†	271 N.E.2d 592	202
1973	Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway	293 N.E.2d 831	193
1975	Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester†	368 Mass. 511	179
1974	Commonwealth v. Antobenedetto· Dissent†	315 N.E.2d 530	169
1973	Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co.	302 N.E.2d 555	162
1974	Marine Contractors Co. Inc. v. Hurley	310 N.E.2d 915	156
1971	Commonwealth v. De Christoforo· Dissent†	277 N.E.2d 100	147
1973	Board of Appeals of Hanover v. Housing Appeals Comm.	294 N.E.2d 393	134
1972	O'Coin's, Inc. v. Treasurer of the County of Worcester	287 N.E.2d 608	132
1975	Commonwealth v. Mutina	323 N.E.2d 294	128
1975	Sorensen v. Sorensen	339 N.E.2d 907	126

Showing the 15 most-cited of 202 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was G Joseph Tauro on?: G Joseph Tauro was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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