https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC Add your information en-us 2016-10-26 19:15:06 UTC 2016-11-17 20:59:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134337520 The Stolen Valor makes it a federal crime for a person to falsely claim to have received military honors or decorations. The Act is very broad and no intent is required. There is also no requirement that the false claim be made in public.]]> 2016-10-31 19:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134337520 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134340915 Justice Kennedy's plurality opinion said that the Stolen Valor Act is a kind of content-based restriction on speech which must meet the "most exacting scrutiny." His opinion rejected the government's claim because he thought lies are within First Amendment protection. He thought that government failed to prove their claim and the true speech is the best remedy for false speech.]]> 2016-10-31 19:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134340915 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341060 Justice Breyer's concurring opinion said that false factual statements may benifit people's life. He emphasized the scope of the statute. But he thought that intermediate scrutiny is appropriate.]]> 2016-10-31 19:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341060 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341137 Justice Alito wrote the dissenting opinion by saying that the statute did not limit the freedom of speech. He thought the false statements is harmful and without First Amendment protection.]]> 2016-10-31 19:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341137 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341484 The Stolen Valor violated the First Amendment. False speech is protected by the First Amendment but not absolute.]]> 2016-10-31 19:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/134341484 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135749531      In Alvarez, “the court made clear that there is generally a First Amendment right to lie.” There was a limit to lie. For example, If a person, “say on a date, lies to impress, that violates the law.” Xavier Alvarez was a member of a water district board in Caremont and when he introduced himself, he gave many untrue information about himself. He used to says many untrue information. 'Lying was his habit." As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said.]]> 2016-11-07 13:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135749531 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135752985 Whether the Stolen Valor Act is constitutional under the First Amendment.]]> 2016-11-07 13:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135752985 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135755238 "The core of the government's argument to the Supreme Court was that false speech adds little of value 
to society and thus is generally without First Amendment protection. In its brief, the government argued 
that false statements "have no First Amendment value in themselves," and thus Rare protected only to the extent needed to avoid chilling fully protected speech."]]> 2016-11-07 13:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/rightToLieTeamC/wish/135755238