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Government resists altering money for blind people

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/12/blind.money/index.html?section=cnn_latest

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn a lower-court ruling requiring the federal government redesign the nation's paper money to help blind people differentiate between denominations of bills.

Judge James Robertson of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled last month that the Treasury Department is violating the law by keeping all paper money the same size and feel, preventing blind people from distinguishing the amount.

Robertson, in a ruling on a suit by the American Council of the Blind, ordered the government to come up with a way to tell bills apart.

In its appeal, the Bush administration disagreed with Robertson's ruling that blind people were denied "meaningful access" to money by the same-sized bills because portable currency readers exist to help distinguish the bills. The government also said blind people can use credit and debit cards instead of cash.

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Ummm, have you ever handed your credit card or debit card to some stranger you couldn't see?