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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1948 / Served to 1958

Harold A. Moise

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Harold A. Moise was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1958
Tenure: 1948–1958 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Moise authored 315 published opinions for the court (1947–1959), plus 22 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Meyer v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co. (129 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. 188 of these were attributed to Moise 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
1954	Meyer v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co.· Dissent†	73 So. 2d 781	129
1950	Thibodaux v. Sun Oil Co.	49 So. 2d 852	125
1950	West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc.	46 So. 2d 122	121
1956	Texas Pipe Line Company v. Barbe	85 So. 2d 260	82
1949	State Ex Rel. Kemp v. City of Baton Rouge	40 So. 2d 477	78
1949	Dodge v. Bituminous Casualty Corporation	39 So. 2d 720	73
1958	Humphreys v. Marquette Casualty Co.	103 So. 2d 895	71
1953	Rosenthal v. Gauthier	69 So. 2d 367	53
1949	State v. Masino	38 So. 2d 622	52
1955	State v. Johnson	82 So. 2d 24	51
1952	Eals v. Swan	59 So. 2d 409	50
1957	Gotreaux v. Gary	94 So. 2d 293	49
1949	Tennant v. Russell	39 So. 2d 726	45
1955	Johnson v. Cabot Carbon Company	81 So. 2d 2	42
1949	State Ex Rel. Murtagh v. Department of City Civil Service· Separate	42 So. 2d 65	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 355 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Harold A. Moise on?: Harold A. Moise was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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