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Case Spotlight: Terkel v. AT&T  The Roger Baldwin Foundation / ACLU of Illinois represents author Studs Terkel and other prominent Illinois citizens in challenging telephone giant AT&T in sharing customers' telephone records with the government without lawful authorization. In 2006, our case – along with similar lawsuits against telecomm companies filed in courts across the nation – was consolidated and transferred to the federal district court in San Francisco. The ACLU of Illinois, along with lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was appointed co-lead coordinating counsel for more than forty cases including our own. A significant obstacle in these cases is the assertion by the government to invoke a “state secrets” privilege, claiming that the matter cannot advance for fear of making confidential information public. An appeal on the state secrets issue is on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the consolidated cases brought by EFF.
Podcast Listen to a podcast from ACLU of Illinois legal director Harvey Grossman discussing the Terkel v. AT&T case.More Information
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