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California Court of Appeal / Joined 2001 / Active

Laurence David Rubin

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Laurence David Rubin is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2001. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2001 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2001	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles		1968
University of California-Los Angeles	with honors	1971

Judicial Record

In our data, Rubin authored 255 published opinions for the court (1985–2019), plus 2 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Miranda (189 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. 89 of these were attributed to Rubin 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
2011	People v. Miranda†	192 Cal. App. 4th 398	189
2009	Goldman v. KPMG, LLP	173 Cal. App. 4th 209	139
2007	Apollo Capital Fund, LLC v. Roth Capital Partners, LLC	70 Cal. Rptr. 3d 199	135
2017	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Juan G.†	7 Cal. App. 5th 987	132
2009	Doe v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel & Emly	177 Cal. App. 4th 209	117
2008	People v. Carrasco	163 Cal. App. 4th 978	117
2008	In Re Mariah T.	71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 542	102
2002	People v. Johnny M.	123 Cal. Rptr. 2d 316	99
2004	People v. Daniel G.	15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 876	93
2006	In Re Janee W.	45 Cal. Rptr. 3d 445	88
2002	In Re Alberto	125 Cal. Rptr. 2d 526	75
2009	People v. Crabtree· Concurrence†	169 Cal. App. 4th 1293	69
2005	In Re Alexis H.	33 Cal. Rptr. 3d 242	69
2012	Mendoza v. City of West Covina†	206 Cal. App. 4th 702	68
2006	People v. Vasquez	39 Cal. Rptr. 3d 433	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 265 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 is Laurence David Rubin on?: Laurence David Rubin is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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24 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).