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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1950 / Active

Morris Lottinger Sr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Morris Lottinger Sr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1978
Tenure: Since 1950 · 76 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1992	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lottinger authored 1,469 published opinions for the court (1950–1998), plus 20 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Favalora v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (49 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. 1,392 of these were attributed to Lottinger 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
1962	Favalora v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company	144 So. 2d 544	49
1961	Holland v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Co.	135 So. 2d 145	37
1953	Simmons v. Clark	64 So. 2d 520	37
1956	Webb v. STATE, DEPT. OF INSTITUTIONS	91 So. 2d 156	36
1954	Blanchard v. Brawley	75 So. 2d 891	34
1963	Wilkinson v. Husser	154 So. 2d 490	30
1961	Gentry v. Gentry	136 So. 2d 418	30
1953	McDowell v. National Sur. Corp.	68 So. 2d 189	30
1953	Strother v. Standard Acc. Ins. Co.	63 So. 2d 484	28
1962	Oldham v. Hoover	140 So. 2d 417	27
1954	Rhea v. Daigle	72 So. 2d 643	26
1953	Mouton v. Gulf States Utilities Co.	69 So. 2d 147	26
1962	Price v. Taylor	139 So. 2d 230	25
1955	Hamilton v. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co.	82 So. 2d 61	25
1956	Baton Rouge Cigarette Service v. Bloomenstiel	88 So. 2d 742	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,509 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 is Morris Lottinger Sr. on?: Morris Lottinger Sr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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76 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).