The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today that paper money discriminates against the blind.
A federal appeals court today upheld a lower ruling that the U.S. currency system discriminates against blind people because bills of different denominations are the same size, shape and color and cannot be easily distinguished by the visually impaired.
Judge Thomas B. Griffith, formerly General Counsel of BYU , concurred in today’s opinion.
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On the one hand, what does it say about society that this is a real problem? I suppose people taking advantage of blind people is not a new occurrence …
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