Wednesday, March 30, 2011
"Court: Stolen Valor Act Unconstitutional"
Everything about misrepresenting war medals is wrong; except that it's apparently legal...
The issue is discussed at Military.comR:
"PASADENA -- The Stolen Valor Act, under which former water board member Xavier Alvarez was fined and ordered to perform community service in 2007, was upheld as being unconstitutional.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier ruling determining that a law barring people from lying about their military heroics was a violation of free speech.
The earlier ruling, which was made by three of the court's members in August, invalidated the 2006 act by Congress.
Alvarez, a Pomona resident and then a member of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District board, pleaded guilty in July 2008 to falsely saying he had won the Medal of Honor. He was fined $5,000 and sentenced to three years of probation, which required community service."
