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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1982 / Served to 2000

Marie Louise Garibaldi

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Marie Louise Garibaldi was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1982–2000 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Connecticut College
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Garibaldi authored 245 published opinions for the court (1983–2000), plus 46 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Cesare v. Cesare (2,245 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. 81 of these were attributed to Garibaldi 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
1998	Cesare v. Cesare	713 A.2d 390	2,245
1992	Jacob v. Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus	607 A.2d 142	636
1993	Lehmann v. Toys 'R' US, Inc.	626 A.2d 445	506
1993	Hopkins v. Fox & Lazo Realtors· Dissent†	625 A.2d 1110	484
1992	State v. Mitchell	601 A.2d 198	472
1994	State v. DiFrisco	645 A.2d 734	455
1987	State v. Novembrino· Concurrence†	519 A.2d 820	387
1988	State v. Koedatich	548 A.2d 939	379
1994	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF TOWN OF MORRISTOWN v. Little· Concurrence†	639 A.2d 286	376
1997	Brady v. Board of Review	704 A.2d 547	357
1997	Sons of Thunder, Inc. v. Borden, Inc.	690 A.2d 575	332
1999	G.S. v. Department of Human Services	723 A.2d 612	330
1992	Voorhees v. Preferred Mutual Insurance	607 A.2d 1255	329
1999	State v. Timmendequas	737 A.2d 55	325
1983	State v. Bruzzese	463 A.2d 320	310

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 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 Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Marie Louise Garibaldi on?: Marie Louise Garibaldi was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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