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

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 2009 / Active

Jorge Labarga

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Jorge Labarga is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Labarga authored 85 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 10 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Montgomery (288 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. 96 of these were attributed to Labarga 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
2010	State v. Montgomery	39 So. 3d 252	288
2013	Tiara Condominium Ass'n v. Marsh & McLennan Companies†	110 So. 3d 399	153
2014	Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of Florida†	149 So. 3d 672	152
2014	Frank Special v. West Boca Medical Center†	160 So. 3d 1251	135
2010	Aills v. Boemi	29 So. 3d 1105	115
2016	Mark James Asay v. State of Florida, SC16-102 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc. & SC16-628 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc.· Concurrence†	210 So. 3d 1	110
2013	Washington National Insurance v. Ruderman†	117 So. 3d 943	107
2013	Haygood v. State†	109 So. 3d 735	89
2013	Williams v. State†	123 So. 3d 23	70
2014	Shawn Alvin Tracey v. State of Florida†	152 So. 3d 504	53
2011	Florida Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Devon Neighborhood Ass'n	67 So. 3d 187	51
2011	Jackson v. State†	64 So. 3d 90	50
2013	Daniels v. State†	121 So. 3d 409	47
2013	Robards v. State· Concurrence†	112 So. 3d 1256	38
2011	Chemrock Corp. v. Tampa Electric Co.	71 So. 3d 786	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 112 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 Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Jorge Labarga on?: Jorge Labarga is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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