Judge Christopher Cooper
District of Columbia U.S. District Court
Christopher Reid “Casey” Cooper was born in September 1966 in Mobile, Alabama. He earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University and received a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. He clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Cooper served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice for two years before entering into the private practice of law.
He was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was confirmed by the Senate and received his commission in March 2014.
Cooper is married to Amy Jeffries, a former Justice Department official.
In the News…
Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons is not required to reveal information about the medical care for inmates who die in prison. A nonprofit organization had brought a public records lawsuit against the agency regarding whether people who die while in custody receive adequate medical care.
The lawsuit was brought after allegations in recent years of negligence and the overcategorization of deaths as “natural.” Early this year, the Justice Department’s Inspector General identified “inadequate staff response to inmate emergencies.“
Judge Cooper decided that the bureau’s mortality reviews are already part of its decision-making process and that release of the records could expose officials to ridicule or criticism.
Judge Cooper wrote that “the members of the Mortality Review Committee would be ‘deter[red] . . . from acknowledging mistakes’ if they feared those mistakes would be publicized.“
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The Honorable Judge Christopher R. Cooper
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
333 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
