Subject: [Acbny-l] currency suit story
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jeRpdw57AGT-lesQwRkHf3xmkomwD9300THG0
WASHINGTON (AP) - When the next generations of $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills
roll off the presses, there should be some way for blind people to tell
them
apart,
a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said he would not allow the Treasury
Department to go at its own pace as it complies with a May ruling that
U.S.
paper
money discriminates against the blind.
Treasury officials have hired a contractor to investigate ways to help the
blind differentiate between bills, perhaps by printing different sizes or
including
raised numbers. Government attorneys urged the judge to let that process
play out and not interfere with anti-counterfeiting redesigns that are
already
in process.
Robertson was not persuaded.
"The Treasury Department is not going to just conduct this on its own
schedule and its own terms. Let that be clear," he said.
Robertson ordered attorneys for the government to meet with the American
Council of the Blind, which brought the lawsuit, and come up with a
schedule
that
requires changes in the next generation of bills.
The next $100 design could be printed as early as this fall and Robertson
said those bills won't be affected. But subsequent designs should be able
to
solve
the problem, the judge said.
Government lawyers said they plan to argue that Robertson does not have
the
authority to interfere with the Treasury's printing responsibilities.
The judge said he'd consider the argument but quipped that, if he didn't
have authority to require changes, how was he supposed to enforce the
ruling? What
would the court order say, he asked, "Go out and have a good time? We'll
see
you when it's all over?"
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