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Jonathan C. Moore is a noted civil rights attorney, whose work concentrates on governmental misconduct, employment discrimination, First Amendment advocacy and international human rights. A partner in the firm of Beldock, Levine & Hoffman LLP, he was a founder and is a member of the advisory board of the National Police Accountability Project, Inc. Jonathan was one of the lead counsel in the class action challenge to racial profiling by the New York City Police Department Street Crimes Unit stop and frisk practices targeting minority youth without reasonable suspicion. He is currently one of the counsel challenging police stops of hundreds of thousands of minority youth annually without reasonable suspicion.

In other litigation Jonathan was lead counsel in litigation against chemical companies who manufactured and sold to the United States government herbicides, including Agent Orange, used on civilian populations during the Vietnam War which contained excessive and avoidable amounts of the carcinogen dioxin; and he is lead counsel in the wrongful conviction civil case on behalf of 3 young men who were charged, convicted and later exonerated of all charges for any involvement in what became known as the Central Park Jogger case. A federal judge recently appointed him lead counsel for the certified class of all those wrongfully arrested and excessively detained during protests at the Republican National Convention in New York City in August 2004. Additional information about Jonathan's litigation background here »