4th Cir. — Judge W. Collins Cooper: courtroom procedures

Source of truth

Judge Cooper (Courtroom 202) Courtroom Conduct and Dress Code • All cell phones must be completely turned off (unless approved) • No talking while court is in session • No food, drinks or chewing gum (water is permitted) • No sunglasses on top of head • Must sit up straight • No sleeping • No reading of books, papers or iPad in courtroom except pertaining to case • No shorts (Unless school uniform or program) • No tank tops / spaghetti straps -- 1 of 2 -- • No flip flops or slides • No mid-driff showing shirts / tops • No hats, bonnets or do-rags • No political, memorial, R.I.P, profane or drug related t-shirts (memorial shirts approved by Judge) • No one piece full bodysuits or pajamas • No sweatpants All pants must be worn on the waist (not sagging) and all shirts must be tucked in.

Official source

CC-P Civil & Criminal Procedures (Judge Brady) — PDF

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Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

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July 25, 2026benchpath-judge-profile-2026-07-25

Reviewer note: Sliced by name from the shared "Duval judges procedures" page — the 4th publishes no per-judge procedure document. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the circuit's published judge procedures, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]