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<p>[QUOTE="Tinpot, post: 1710705, member: 35836"]<font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"> It appears I am at least partially wrong, since the courts of the USA no longer strive to uphold the laws of the land. </span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">In </span></font><u><font face="Arial">State v. Carroll</font></u><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">, 1997 WL 118064 (Ohio App. 4 Dist.) the courts said the law need not apply. (they cited no law to the contrary, merely that it wasn't practical) </span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">The law being 31 U.S.C.A. </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">'</span></font> <font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">5103, United States coins are legal tender </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">"</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">for all debts, public charges taxes and dues".</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000">They may as well just change the law if they aren't going to follow it. Make only $1 or larger denominations legal tender, or something along those lines.</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tinpot, post: 1710705, member: 35836"][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000] It appears I am at least partially wrong, since the courts of the USA no longer strive to uphold the laws of the land. In [/COLOR][/FONT][U][FONT=Arial]State v. Carroll[/FONT][/U][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000], 1997 WL 118064 (Ohio App. 4 Dist.) the courts said the law need not apply. (they cited no law to the contrary, merely that it wasn't practical) [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]The law being 31 U.S.C.A. [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]'[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]5103, United States coins are legal tender [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]"[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]for all debts, public charges taxes and dues". They may as well just change the law if they aren't going to follow it. Make only $1 or larger denominations legal tender, or something along those lines.[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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