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Stolen Valor is divided into 4 parts and an appendix.

The Stolen Valor legislation hung up in committee for months.

According to court documents, 45 people have been prosecuted under Stolen Valor.

Over the years, several instances of so-called stolen valor have made headlines:

There is a clear legal argument to be made here that the Stolen Valor law serves a valid social policy.

Stolen valor is a term for the behavior of military imposters, individuals who lie about their military service.

That paper eventually led to the Stolen Valor Act.

Other federal judges have recently found the Stolen Valor Act to be unconstitutional.

This isn’t an incidence of stolen valor.

That was the inspiration for the Stolen Valor Act, which began almost by accident.

Read more about the Stolen Valor Act, which has now been ruled unconstitutional.

The Stolen Valor Act, however, is a direct attack on free speech and therefore far more dangerous.

The government's chief problem in the "stolen valor" case may be the series of strong pro-1st Amendment rulings by the Roberts court.

Alvarez was charged and convicted under the Stolen Valor Act.

Burkett, the "Stolen Valor" author, says people who make up these stories are doing more than just taking money from fellow veterans.

Proponents of the Stolen Valor Act promised to bring forward more limited legislation in the future.

As such, the Stolen Valor Act is an unconstitutional restraint on the freedom of speech.

Over the past few years, though, the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act has been challenged several times.

Under the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, it's against the law to sell a military decoration or medal.

The Stolen Valor Act cleared both chambers of Congress last month.

The panel majority declared the Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional.

Since then the US government has introduced the Stolen Valor Act.

An appeals court agreed and called the Stolen Valor Act "facially unconstitutional."

With the Stolen Valor Act, however, Congress made it possible to jail someone simply for telling a lie.

He was sentenced under the Stolen Valor Act to more than 400 hours of community service at a veterans hospital and fined $5,000.