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> Legal tender has never been challenged in court to my knowledge It was challenged and upheld, both as against debts before the the legal tender acts were pas
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> Legal tender has never been challenged in court to my knowledge
It was challenged and upheld, both as against debts before the the legal tender acts were passed and those after, by the Supreme Court in Knox v. Lee (1871).
- SJC_Hacker 1y agoYet the US government can refuse payments in cash https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/10/03/2017-21194/cash-payment-method-will-no-longer-be-accepted https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/10/03/2017-21...
- ceejayoz 1y agoYes. Because a patent filing fee is not a debt. (And because government can exempt itself from virtually anything not forbidden by the Constitution. This is why cops can break down your door, but I can't.)