Jordan Murov-Goodman, counsel in Cohen Milstein’s Human Rights practice, represents victims of torture, human trafficking, forced labor, and other violations of international law in litigation against multinational corporations, foreign governments, and other powerful wrongdoers.
Jordan is devoted to advancing the rights of marginalized and often indigent people. Before joining Cohen Milstein, Jordan was a public defender at the King County Department of Public Defense, where he represented hundreds of clients facing misdemeanor and felony charges. Earlier in his career, he litigated novel Fourth Amendment jurisprudence issues as a legal fellow at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and advocated for the First Amendment rights of journalists as a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
While attending Columbia Law School, Jordan was the online editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Jordan also worked at Cohen Milstein as a summer associate.
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Washington
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2019
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A., cum laude, 2013
Current Cases
Ratha, et al v. Phatthana Seafood Co
Ratha, et al v. Phatthana Seafood Co. (C.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein is representing seven Cambodian plaintiffs in a cross-border human rights lawsuit involving human trafficking, forced labor, involuntary servitude, and peonage by factories in Thailand that produce shrimp and seafood for export to the United States.
Kasim Kurd, et al. v. The Republic of Turkey
Kurd v. The Republic of Turkey (D.D.C.): Cohen Milstein represents fifteen people, including a seven-year-old girl with her father, a mother pushing a four-year-old in a stroller, students, and local small business owners, who had gathered at Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C., to peacefully protest the Erdogan regime’s treatment of its Kurdish community. They were brutally attacked by President Erdogan’s security detail, who pushed past a line of law enforcement officers to kick, stomp and bludgeon the demonstrators. The attack was captured on video, resulted in criminal indictments, and was condemned by the United States Congress. The Republic of Turkey claimed it was immune from suit, but the district court disagreed. Agnieszka Fryszman successfully argued the case at the Court of Appeals, obtaining a unanimous opinion holding that Turkey was not entitled to sovereign immunity for the attack.
Bumble Bee Foods Longline Fishing TVPRA Litigation
Akhmad, et al. v. Bumble Bee Foods, LLC (S.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein represents four Indonesian men in a Trafficking Victims Protection Act lawsuit against Bumble Bee Foods. The men, who are from rural villages in Indonesia, applied for commercial fishmen jobs but, instead allege that they were subjected to forced labor on vessels that are part of Bumble Bee Food’s “trusted fleet” of longline tuna fishing vessels.