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Christopher R. Cooper (Christopher Reid Cooper) was born on 2 September, 1966 in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., is an American judge (born 1966). Discover Christopher R. Cooper's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September, 1966
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1962

The student sought to learn if the United States government was involved in Nelson Mandela's arrest and imprisonment in 1962, and filed suit against the agencies after each denied his FOIA request.

(The CIA asserted that the search would be "unreasonably burdensome" and the NSA gave a Glomar response, refusing to confirm or deny whether the agency had records involving Mandela).

1966

Christopher Reid "Casey" Cooper (born September 2, 1966) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Cooper was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1966.

1988

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1988 from Yale University, where he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

1993

He received a Juris Doctor with distinction in 1993 from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review.

Cooper served as a law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1993 to 1994.

1994

From 1994 to 1996, he served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice.

1996

He served as an associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLC from 1996 until its merger with Baker Botts LLP in 2001, serving as a partner at the latter firm until 2012, when he joined Covington & Burling LLP as a partner.

Cooper remained at Covington & Burling until his appointment to the federal bench.

While in private practice, Cooper "represented diverse sets of clients in both criminal and civil investigations, with a focus on white-collar and anti-corruption matters."

2008

Cooper served on the Obama/Biden transition team in 2008 as an advisor on Justice Department issues.

2012

Among Cooper's notable cases in the U.S. district court is the criminal case of Ahmed Abu Khattala, who is charged with orchestrating the 2012 Benghazi attack.

In a pretrial evidentiary ruling, Cooper denied Khattala's motion to suppress statements he made to FBI agents while detained on the Navy ship USS New York en route to the United States, a significant victory for federal prosecutors.

2013

On August 1, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Cooper to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who assumed senior status on July 15, 2013.

2014

On January 16, 2014, his nomination was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a voice vote.

On March 13, 2014, Senator Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.

On March 26, 2014, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 56–43 vote.

His nomination was confirmed later that day by a 100–0 vote.

He received his commission two days later.

In 2014, Cooper rejected a challenge brought by various pet-breeding groups against the United States Department of Agriculture.

The challengers sought to invalidate Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service regulations affecting certain pet breeders who make Internet sales.

Cooper upheld the rules in a "pun-filled" decision.

Cooper presided over a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Shapiro v. CIA, filed in 2014 by an MIT graduate student against the CIA and NSA.

2015

In 2015, Cooper issued a 21-page decision dismissing a suit brought by the Florida counties of Indian River and Martin seeking to block the All Aboard Florida railway project later known as Brightline) on environmental grounds. Cooper ruled that the counties lacked standing to pursue their claim, and wrote: "The Court is mindful of the vigorous debate in Central and South Florida over whether the express railway should be built. But the relative merits of the project are not for this Court to decide."

In 2015, Cooper heard a petition for a preliminary injunction filed by the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, which sought to block CSX Transportation's reconstruction of the Virginia Avenue Tunnel in Southeast Washington, D.C..

Cooper denied the petition.

2016

In 2016, Cooper denied the CIA's motion to dismiss, rejecting the agency's argument that the student had not given sufficient detail about the records he was seeking.

In the same opinion, Cooper ruled that the NSA could give a Glomar response with respect to intelligence records, but not on non-intelligence records.

In 2016, Cooper issued a decision in a racial discrimination case brought against Airbnb.

Cooper granted the company's motion to compel arbitration based on a mandatory arbitration clause in the website's terms of use.

In 2021, Cooper dismissed a defamation suit filed by Giorgi Rtskhiladze, a U.S. citizen born in the Republic of Georgia.

He is a friend of Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.

2017

Trial began in October 2017.

2020

Rtskhiladze was unhappy with the way he was portrayed in Footnote 112 in the Mueller report, so in 2020 he sued Robert Mueller, and Cooper dismissed the case.

In 2024, Cooper held veteran reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to reveal her source.

Saying that Dr. Chen's need for the information overcame Ms. Herridge's First Amendment protections.

This has been widely criticized by journalists and First Amendment advocates.

Cooper is African-American.

Cooper is married to Amy Jeffress, a former Justice Department official and national security counselor to former United States Attorney General Eric Holder.