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his graduation from Yale, two years later, he returned to
Atlanta and joined the firm. Hollowell,Ward, Moore and Alexander was not connected to Emory University. It was a private law firm which specialized in civil rights litigation and also offered general legal services in criminal and civil matters, including taxes. Second, Peter and Elizabeth did not commute between New Haven and Michigan, after they met at a conference in Mississippi. At the time, Peter was a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Moore, Alexander and Rindskof, which succeeded Hollowell, Ward, Moore and Alexander, until his death in October of 1971. He commuted between Atlanta and Ann Harbor, Michigan, until Elizabeth graduated from law school and moved to Atlanta. Your omission relates to failure to mention Peter was an associate with Attorney Howard Moore, Jr. in the founding and operation until his death of the Southern Legal Assistance Project (SLAP), to defend peace activists, war resisters, and others in opposition to the War in Vietnam. SLAP was supported by various religious organizations, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other private individuals. Peter represented with Howard Moore Jr. members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Muslims and members of the Nation of Islams who refused induction into the Armed Forces of the United States and others. SLAP practiced throughout the South, as far North as Grand Rapids Michigan, as far West as Omaha, Nebraska. Peter was deeply committed to the Civil Rights Movement, women's rights, and the fair and even-handed administration of both the criminal and civil law. He represented one man on Georgia's death row, whose conviction was overturned by the US Supreme Court for noncompliance with its decision in Miranda v. Arizona. I considered Peter the younger brother I never had. When my mother needed a blood transfusion, without being asked, Peter volunteered to give blood and, indeed, did so.
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Rindskopf also took on some cases relating to the military. In April 1969 he represented Pfc. Dennis Davis, who received an undesirable discharge two weeks before the end of his two-year tour in response to his publication of a clandestine newspaper known as
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