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“Frankly, I found the Supreme Court’s decision unremarkable.  It did not decide any novel issues of law or rule on any important constitutional questions.  The majority opinion struck me as very much like a run-of-the-mill opinion that the federal courts of appeal issue every day.” John Helms Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer  In United States v. Tsarnaev, No. 20-443 (U.S., March 4, 2022...

NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq: NYMT) (the “Company”) announced today that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share on shares of its common stock for the quarter ending March 31, 2022. The dividend will be payable on April 25, 2022 to common stockholders of record as of the close of b...

Author: John Helms – Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer  – Dallas Hacking Defense Attorney John Helms Explains Hacking Laws Van Buren v. United States:  The Supreme Court Says the Federal Computer Hacking Criminal Law Does Not Apply to People Who Simply Make Unauthorized Use of Information They Are Allowed to Access  The United States Supreme Court  The United States Supreme Court just handed dow...

The first murder trial in Gaston County since the beginning of the pandemic is scheduled to begin Monday morning. Eric Wilson Taylor, 54, will be retried on allegations that he drove across the center line on a road in Mount Holly and crashed into 61-year-old Vance Avery of Lincolnton on Feb. 5, 2015. Avery died three days later. Taylor's original trial was held in February 2017, and he was ...

Even after the Texas midterm primaries came and went, stories from the campaign season just keep getting stranger. A former Kaufman County justice of the peace, the son of a self-proclaimed “proud white nationalist” political activist from North Texas, admitted to law enforcement last week that he stole yard signs set up by the campaign of a candidate for district attorney there, inForney.com...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – Although many incumbents in elections across the Piedmont Triad will return to office for another term without even having to sweat a campaign, some of the Triad’s longest-serving leaders will have work to do if they want another four years in office. Candidate filing ended on Friday, and, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene on the congressional map ap...

Candidates have made their campaigns official for several seats representing Forsyth County voters. Qualifying for local party candidates and non-partisan candidates in the May 24 general primary and nonpartisan general election and independent candidates running in the Nov. 8 general election was held the week of Monday, March 7 through Friday, March 11, and brought candidates for seats at f...

The legal minds influencing New York City and state politics. David Dee Delgado / Stringer New York is the capital of the legal industry. The state has the greatest number of lawyers per 1,000 residents in the country, and a high demand for legal services. Many of the country’s largest and most prestigious law firms – with practices spanning the globe – are based in Manhattan. Many of the na...

City & State There are precious few industries whose effect on our daily lives can be felt, seen and experienced more than construction. The roads we drive on, the bridges we cross, the malls we shop in, the places we live, the skylines we love – all are tangible examples of the impact the construction industry has had and continues to have in Pennsylvania. Despite being hampered and, at ...