Irving Ben Cooper
Irving Ben Cooper | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
In office February 7, 1972 – September 17, 1996 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
In office October 5, 1961 – February 7, 1972 | |
Appointed by | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Seat established by 75 Stat. 80 |
Succeeded by | Kevin Duffy |
Personal details | |
Born | Irving Ben Cooper February 7, 1902 London, England |
Died | September 17, 1996 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 94)
Education | Washington University School of Law (LLB) |
Irving Ben Cooper (February 7, 1902 – September 17, 1996) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Early life and education
Born on February 7, 1902, in London, England, Cooper received a Bachelor of Laws in 1925 from the Washington University School of Law.[1]
Career
Cooper worked in private practice in New York City, New York, from 1927 to 1938. He served as special counsel for the New York City Department of Investigation from 1934 to 1937. He was a magistrate for New York City from 1938 to 1939. He was a justice of the New York Court of Special Sessions from 1939 to 1960, serving as chief justice from 1951 to 1960. He was a lecturer at the Menninger Foundation from 1960 to 1961.[2]
Cooper received a recess appointment from President John F. Kennedy on October 5, 1961, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to a new seat authorized by 75 Stat. 80. He was nominated to the same position by President Kennedy on January 15, 1962. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 20, 1962, and received his commission on September 28, 1962. He assumed senior status on February 7, 1972. His service terminated on September 17, 1996, due to his death in New York City.[2]
Notable cases and judicial philosophy
In 1970, Cooper presided over a claim that organized baseball exerted a monopolistic hold on all major and minor league teams, and in 1982, a complaint filed by Jacqueline Onassis that a photographer was harassing her and her daughter, Caroline Kennedy.[3] During his service as chief justice of the New York Court of Special Sessions, Cooper wrote yearly reports on the problems regarding the treatment of young offenders in the criminal justice system, asserting "It is not impossible for a sentence to be a greater injustice than the criminal act: equivalent to putting a child with a common cold into a smallpox ward for treatment."[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Judiciary, United States Congress Senate Committee on the (1962). Nomination of Irving Ben Cooper: Hearings ... Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on Nomination of Irving Ben Cooper, of New York, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. March 19 and 20, June 22, July 11 and 24, August 7, 1962. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b Irving Ben Cooper at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ Flaherty, Tina Santi (2015-05-05). What Jackie Taught Us (Revised and Expanded): Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Introduction by L iz Smith. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-399-17428-5.
External links
- Elanor Roosevelt's letter about Judge Cooper's 1953 Report on 'Youthful Offenders'
- Photographer Cited for Contempt in annoying Jacqueline Onassis
- The Courts and Baseball
- 'The Case of the Albuquerque Eights' Is Closed; Or White-Collar Crime Is Easy
- Time article from 1962
- Irving Ben Cooper at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- British emigrants to the United States
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States district court judges appointed by John F. Kennedy
- 20th-century American judges
- Washington University School of Law alumni
- 1902 births
- 1996 deaths
- 20th-century American lawyers