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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1996 / Served to 2003

Leo F. McGinity

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Leo F. McGinity was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1996–2003 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McGinity authored 4 published opinions for the court (1996–2003), plus 18 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Prado (23 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. 28 of these were attributed to McGinity 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
2003	People v. Prado· Dissent†	1 A.D.2d 533	23
2001	People v. Carr-El· Concurrence†	287 A.D.2d 731	18
1997	Laino v. Cuprum S.A. de C.V.†	235 A.D.2d 25	15
1996	Arner v. Liberty Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	233 A.D.2d 321	15
2001	Allstate Indemnity Co. v. Nelson· Dissent†	285 A.D.2d 545	14
1998	Henry v. City of New York†	244 A.D.2d 93	14
2002	Toal v. Staten Island University Hospital†	300 A.D.2d 592	13
2003	Csorny v. Shoreham-Wading River Central School District· Dissent†	305 A.D.2d 83	9
1996	Linszer v. Wachsman· Concurrence†	232 A.D.2d 530	9
2003	Canela v. Audobon Gardens Realty Corp.· Dissent†	304 A.D.2d 702	8
1998	People v. James· Dissent†	253 A.D.2d 438	8
2003	People v. Reynoso· Dissent†	309 A.D.2d 769	7
2002	Sheffield Towers Rehabilitation & Health Care Center v. Novello· Concurrence†	293 A.D.2d 182	7
2001	People v. Woods· Dissent†	281 A.D.2d 570	6
1997	Mennella v. Lopez-Torres†	229 A.D.2d 153	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 New York Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Leo F. McGinity on?: Leo F. McGinity was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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7 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).