How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1950 / Served to 2005

Louis Yarrut

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Louis Yarrut was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1950–2005 · 55 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Yarrut authored 507 published opinions for the court (1953–1969), plus 14 dissents. Most cited: Pittman Construction Co. v. City of New Orleans (36 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. 363 of these were attributed to Yarrut 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
1965	Pittman Construction Co. v. City of New Orleans	178 So. 2d 312	36
1967	Brady v. American Insurance Company	198 So. 2d 907	31
1964	Guerra v. WJ Young Construction Company	165 So. 2d 882	30
1962	Tullier v. Tullier	140 So. 2d 916	30
1968	Viator v. Gilbert	206 So. 2d 106	26
1965	Sanderson v. Binnings Construction Company	172 So. 2d 721	24
1963	United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. New Orleans Term. Co.	156 So. 2d 297	24
1968	Stumpf v. Metairie Motor Sales, Inc.	212 So. 2d 705	23
1962	Giordano v. Tullier	139 So. 2d 15	23
1964	Truitt v. B & G Crane Service, Inc.	165 So. 2d 874	22
1968	Everhardt v. City of New Orleans	208 So. 2d 423	21
1967	Foster v. Nunmaker Discount Company	201 So. 2d 215	21
1966	Texas Pipe Line Company v. Stein	190 So. 2d 244	21
1966	Sciortino v. Sciortino	188 So. 2d 224	21
1965	Smith v. Foucha	172 So. 2d 318	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 522 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 was Louis Yarrut on?: Louis Yarrut was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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55 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).