Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases
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.”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/us/05immig.html?_r=1
By Adam Liptak and Julia Preston -- New York Times