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Watch footage from the hearing for the Terkel v. AT&T case (labeled here as Hepting v. AT&T) in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the argument made by the ACLU of Illinois' Legal Director Harvey Grossman (at around 00:20:30).

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Think Progress, a blog run by the Center for American Progress, noted that several GOP Presidential candidates commented on Catholic Charities v DCFS, a case here in Illinois:

Colleen K. Connell, executive director of the ACLU of Illinois, said Bennett originally started at the ACLU on a temporary fellowship, but Connell didn't want to let her go. "She so impressed me by her intellect and her integrity, that I said to my colleagues, 'We have got to find a way to keep her,'" Connell said. She said Bennett adeptly navigates conflict during the legislative process. "She's very good at confronting issues and managing that confrontation in a collegial, straightforward and very productive way," Connell said. "She's good at drilling down on the concerns of an opposing

ACLU of Illinois Legal Director Harvey Grossman will be presenting in Seattle on Wednesday the 31st at a hearing in our case Terkel v. AT&T before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit:

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