Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was unconstitutional. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a federal law that criminalized false statements about having a military medal.
Derek Robert Hamm pretended to be a decorated military veteran to trick and defraud investors, according to the Department of Justice.
"As such, the Stolen Valor Act is an unconstitutional restraint on the freedom of speech." [19] On July 16, 2010, a federal judge in Denver ruled the Stolen Valor Act is "facially unconstitutional" because it violates free speech and dismissed the criminal case against Strandlof who lied about being an Iraq war veteran. [20]
The Stolen Valor Act of 2013, her release says, “made it a federal crime for an individual to fraudulently represent themselves to have earned military decorations or medals with the intent to ...
The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–12 (text); H.R. 258) is a United States federal law that was passed by the 113th United States Congress.The law amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a person to fraudulently claim having received a valor award specified in the Act, with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit by convincing another that ...
The New Jersey Stolen Valor Act, makes it a crime for any person who, "with intent to impersonate and with intent to deceive, misrepresents oneself as a member or veteran of the United States ...
Citing "stolen valor," and false claims of military service, the Sussex County Republican Party has asked for Commissioner Bill Hayden to step down. Sussex GOP calls for resignation of county ...
The murder of Elisa Izquierdo occurred in November 1995 in Manhattan, New York City. [3] Izquierdo was a six-year-old Puerto Rican–Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 and 1995.