Beth Haroules joined the New York Civil Liberties Union as an attorney in 1994. There, she designs and prosecutes complex litigation on constitutional and civil rights issues.
His cases include disability rights (Willowbrook Class Action and Hirschfeld v. HHC/Kings County Status) and mental health law, including “Kendra’s Law,” the involuntary admission and detention of mentally ill individuals in psychiatric wards of New York City public hospitals and the forced administration of psychotropic medications, ethical issues surrounding individuals diagnosed with a vegetative state and organ donation/organ removal (including surrogate decision-making for the incompetent), medical euthanasia in New York State, the unlawful surveillance of New York City’s Muslim community by the NYPD after the events of September 11, 2001, religious discrimination in the workplace at Salvation Army child welfare programs, the right of dissident groups to make political speech anonymously, New York City zoning resolutions regarding establishments providing adult entertainment, local zoning ordinances restricting political speech, internet censorship and information privacy issues, medical and genetic privacy issues, student and consumer privacy issues, and challenges to a “fraudulent” DNA database maintained by the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Prior to joining the NYCLU, Mr. Harlowes practiced in the areas of commercial litigation and arbitration at the law firm of White & Case. Mr. Harlowes graduated from Harvard University in 1980 and received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1986.