Abitbol v. Priore

MEMORANDUM OPINION

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

The dispositive issue to be decided here is whether the Governor may, in two separate consecutive acts, first appoint an “acting” successor of a district attorney whose resignation left the office vacant and then fill the same office by appointing another person for the full unexpired term. Our answer declares that by force of the applicable law the first appointee became invested with title to the office for the remainder of the resigned predecessor’s term.

This controversy is over title to the office of district attorney for the Twelfth Judicial…