The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal law prohibiting the unauthorized wearing of military decorations in ruling that a Nevada man had violated the law in knowingly wearing a Purple Heart he was not entitled to.
The man contended in his appeal that the law prohibiting wearing of unauthorized military decorations was overbroad and would keep family members from wearing medals of fallen loved ones or the wearing of medals as artistic expression. -db
From the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, September 27, 2011, by Sherri M. Okamoto.