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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

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James Genovese

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

James Genovese is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Genovese authored 486 published opinions for the court (2005–2016), plus 16 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: BEUTLER ENG. CHIRO. CLIN. v. Mermentau Rice (57 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. 308 of these were attributed to Genovese 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
2006	BEUTLER ENG. CHIRO. CLIN. v. Mermentau Rice	931 So. 2d 553	57
2008	Ducote v. Louisiana Industries, Inc.	980 So. 2d 843	49
2013	Thomas v. Lafayette Parish School System†	128 So. 3d 1055	39
2008	State v. Carter	981 So. 2d 734	34
2005	Bailey v. City of Lafayette	904 So. 2d 922	32
2007	State v. Fuslier	954 So. 2d 866	31
2006	State v. Clark	940 So. 2d 799	31
2007	Trahan v. City of Crowley	967 So. 2d 557	30
2007	State v. Fuslier	970 So. 2d 83	28
2005	Maricle v. Sunbelt Builders, Inc.	916 So. 2d 1226	27
2012	Berard v. Home State County Mutual Ins.· Dissent†	89 So. 3d 470	26
2009	Jones Ex Rel. Jones v. GEO Group, Inc.	6 So. 3d 1021	26
2005	Jeanise v. Cannon	895 So. 2d 651	26
2008	State ex rel. D.H.L.†	981 So. 2d 906	25
2006	Chavers v. Bright Truck Leasing	945 So. 2d 838	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 514 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 James Genovese on?: James Genovese is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).