U.S. Supreme Court takes up Kansas identity theft case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a bid by Kansas to revive the state’s policy, blocked by a lower court, of prosecuting people for identity theft for using other people’s Social Security numbers in order to gain employment in a case linked to immigration issues.
The justices will hear the state’s appeal of a 2017 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court that voided the convictions of three restaurant workers, finding that a 1986 federal law, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, prevents states from pursuing such prosecutions.
Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham
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