Floyd Abrams Says 'Lying' May Be Protected Speech: Video

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — Floyd Abrams, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and author of “Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment,” talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about the constitutionality of the 2005 Stolen Valor Act, which punishes people with as much as a year in prison for lying about receiving military honors, in the case of United States v. Alvarez.