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9th Circuit: Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional

By Alliance Alert

Law.com: "A three-year-old federal law that makes it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel in California ruled Tuesday . . . A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with [Xavier Alvarez] in a 2-1 decision Tuesday, agreeing that the law was a violation of his free-speech rights. The majority said there's no evidence that such lies harm anybody, and there's no compelling reason for the government to ban such lies." USA v. Alvarez, No. 08-50345 (9th Cir. Aug. 17, 2010)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).