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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1989 / Served to 1992

Rosemary D. Laporta

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Rosemary D. Laporta was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1992 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Laporta authored 147 published opinions for the court (1989–1992), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Skipper Marine Electronics, Inc. v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (56 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. 44 of these were attributed to Laporta 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
1991	Skipper Marine Electronics, Inc. v. United Parcel Service, Inc.	569 N.E.2d 55	56
1991	People v. O'BANNER	575 N.E.2d 1261	51
1989	People v. Jenkins	545 N.E.2d 986	50
1991	Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Gust K. Newberg Construction Co.	578 N.E.2d 1003	48
1990	People v. Matthews	562 N.E.2d 1113	46
1991	Senese v. Climatemp, Inc.	582 N.E.2d 1180	45
1991	Travelers Ins. Companies v. PC Quote, Inc.	570 N.E.2d 614	45
1991	People v. Manley	584 N.E.2d 477	43
1990	People v. Foley	565 N.E.2d 39	43
1991	Skelton v. Chicago Transit Authority	573 N.E.2d 1315	42
1991	Sheppard v. Krol	578 N.E.2d 212	41
1990	American Ambassador Casualty Co. v. City of Chicago	563 N.E.2d 882	39
1991	Harte v. Chicago Council of Lawyers· Dissent†	581 N.E.2d 275	37
1992	People v. Melgoza	595 N.E.2d 1261	35
1991	In re Marriage of Hoppe†	220 Ill. App. 3d 271	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Rosemary D. Laporta on?: Rosemary D. Laporta was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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