Chicago Federal 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A federal judge overturned Chicago's ban on the sale of firearms, ruling that the ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.

Facebook asked a federal judge in Chicago to throw out Timelines' suit, arguing, that the word "timeline" is too generic to be trademarked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A federal judge overturned Chicago's ban on the sale of firearms, ruling that the ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.

Facebook asked a federal judge in Chicago to throw out Timelines' suit, arguing, that the word "timeline" is too generic to be trademarked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.