9th Circuit overturns portion of old Stolen Valor law

Essentially, the right to misrepresent yourself or lie is enshrined in the Constitution. It's one of those nasty edges of freedom. What the court didn't do was overturn the law that using said medals to gain something you don't deserve is fraud and that's going to get you put in jail.

SGT (Join to see) I think the 9th Circuit actually did reverse the Congressional correction to the Stolen valor law. The 9th circuit seems now holds that it is unconstitutional to prohibit the wearing of unauthorized medals which means that now anybody could purchase medals without authorization and the wear them as well.
I quoted the following from 2/3 of the way down in the article you linked to. "Subsequently, the Congress fixed the law, said that claiming medals for the purpose of securing something of value was illegal, and that’s where we stood until yesterday. Technically, we still stand there, because while numerous reporters are getting it wrong, what the 9h Circuit yesterday decided was that the original law’s prohibition on WEARING medals was also unconstitutional, basing it on the same grounds the Supreme Court found in Alvarez on the claiming medals portion."

Well, it is the 9th circuit...