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Yahoo Must Face Class Action Over Text Messages: US judge
Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert to Plead Guilty: Lawyers
Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a deal with prosecutors and expects to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush- money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago today.
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Mexican Drug Trafficker Sentenced in Chicago to 22 Years in Prison
A federal judge sentenced a Mexican drug trafficker to 22 years in prison for shipping 276 kilos of cocaine to Chicago hidden in railway cars in a case that highlighted the city's role as a hub for distributing tons of cocaine throughout the United States from 1998 to 2008.
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Chicago Judge to Rule on Detention in Islamic State Case
A federal magistrate judge will decide if a 19-year-old US citizen from suburban Chicago accused of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants should stay behind bars pending trial.
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Man charged in USD 7 million shoplifting case jailed
The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing USD 7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Chicago's ban on gun sales unconstitutional: Federal Court
A federal judge overturned Chicago's ban on the sale of firearms, ruling that the ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.
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Facebook can be sued over 'timeline', rules US judge
Facebook asked a federal judge in Chicago to throw out Timelines' suit, arguing, that the word "timeline" is too generic to be trademarked.
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Would-be Chicago bomber apologizes in letter
A young Lebanese immigrant awaiting sentencing for placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field baseball stadium wrote a letter to the judge saying he drank "all day, every day" for months before the would-be attack.
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Have no faith that he's a changed person: Judge on David Headley
As Chicago federal judge Harry D. Leinenweber sentenced David Coleman Headley to 35 years in prison today, he said, "No matter what I do it is not going to deter terrorists. Unfortunately. Terrorists do not care for it." Headley, an American, had pleaded guilty to playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that killed more than 160 people.
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David Headley sentenced to 35 years in jail by Chicago court for role in 26/11
David Coleman Headley has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago for playing a key role in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed more than 166 people.
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Pakistani-American cabbie gets seven and half years for bid to fund terrorist
A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaeda, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States.
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US releases Headley interrogation tapes
US federal prosecutors have released interrogation tapes of admitted Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, who helped plot the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, after a Chicago judge's order.
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Yahoo Must Face Class Action Over Text Messages: US judge
Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert to Plead Guilty: Lawyers
Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a deal with prosecutors and expects to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush- money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago today.
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Mexican Drug Trafficker Sentenced in Chicago to 22 Years in Prison
A federal judge sentenced a Mexican drug trafficker to 22 years in prison for shipping 276 kilos of cocaine to Chicago hidden in railway cars in a case that highlighted the city's role as a hub for distributing tons of cocaine throughout the United States from 1998 to 2008.
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Chicago Judge to Rule on Detention in Islamic State Case
A federal magistrate judge will decide if a 19-year-old US citizen from suburban Chicago accused of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants should stay behind bars pending trial.
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Man charged in USD 7 million shoplifting case jailed
The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing USD 7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Chicago's ban on gun sales unconstitutional: Federal Court
A federal judge overturned Chicago's ban on the sale of firearms, ruling that the ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.
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Facebook can be sued over 'timeline', rules US judge
Facebook asked a federal judge in Chicago to throw out Timelines' suit, arguing, that the word "timeline" is too generic to be trademarked.
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Would-be Chicago bomber apologizes in letter
A young Lebanese immigrant awaiting sentencing for placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field baseball stadium wrote a letter to the judge saying he drank "all day, every day" for months before the would-be attack.
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Have no faith that he's a changed person: Judge on David Headley
As Chicago federal judge Harry D. Leinenweber sentenced David Coleman Headley to 35 years in prison today, he said, "No matter what I do it is not going to deter terrorists. Unfortunately. Terrorists do not care for it." Headley, an American, had pleaded guilty to playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that killed more than 160 people.
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David Headley sentenced to 35 years in jail by Chicago court for role in 26/11
David Coleman Headley has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago for playing a key role in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed more than 166 people.
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Pakistani-American cabbie gets seven and half years for bid to fund terrorist
A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaeda, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States.
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US releases Headley interrogation tapes
US federal prosecutors have released interrogation tapes of admitted Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, who helped plot the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, after a Chicago judge's order.
