Fight Identity Theft » Justices http://fightidentitytheft.info Information to help with identity theft protection Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:26:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Justices Limit Use of Identity Theft Law in Immigration Cases? http://fightidentitytheft.info/justices-limit-use-of-identity-theft-law-in-immigration-cases/169/ http://fightidentitytheft.info/justices-limit-use-of-identity-theft-law-in-immigration-cases/169/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:25:48 +0000 http://fightidentitytheft.info/justices-limit-use-of-identity-theft-law-in-immigration-cases/169/ The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a favorite tool of prosecutors in immigration cases, ruling unanimously that a federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs.

The question in the case was whether workers who use fake identification numbers to commit some other crimes must know they belong to a real person to be subject to a two-year sentence extension for “aggravated identity theft.”

The answer, the Supreme Court said, is yes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/us/05immig.html?ref=politics

anyone else think this is ridiculous?
well, judging by the thumbs down there are plenty of people who think it is okay to break the law.

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