The Newspaper US Court of Appeals upholds right of toll road operators to detain drivers for using large denomination currency.
Motorists can be held indefinitely at toll booths if they pay with large denomination bills, according to a federal appeals court ruling handed down Wednesday. A family of drivers — Joel, Deborah and Robert Chandler – filed suit last year arguing they were effectively being held hostage by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and the private contractor in charge of the state’s toll road, Faneuil, Inc.
Under FDOT policies in place at the time, motorists who paid with $50 bills, and occasionally even $5 bills, were not given permission to proceed until the toll collector filled out a “Bill Detection Report” with data about the motorist’s vehicle and details from his driver’s license. Many of those who chose to pay cash did so to avoid the privacy implications of installing a SunPass transponder that recorded their driving habits. They were likewise unwilling to provide personal information to the toll collector, but they had no alternative because the toll barrier would not be raised without compliance. FDOT policy does not allow passengers to exit their vehicle, and backing up is illegal and usually impossible while other cars wait behind. FDOT dropped the Bill Detection Reports in 2010.
A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals did not buy the argument that these motorist detentions rose to the level of a constitutional violation.
“The fact that a person is not free to leave on his own terms at a given moment, however, does not, by itself, mean that the person has been ‘seized’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment,” the court wrote in its unsigned decision. “In Florida, a person’s right and liberty to use a highway is not absolute; it may be regulated in the public interest through reasonable and reasonably executed regulations.”
The judges found it was reasonable for Fanueil to set regulations for use of the road — including the types of acceptable payment. The court decided that drivers implicitly agreed to those conditions by choosing to use the toll road.
“The Chandlers have not alleged that they were forced to pay their tolls with large-denomination bills, thereby subjecting themselves to whatever delay was caused by completion of the Bill Detection Report,” the court ruled. “They chose to pay their toll with large-denomination bills. Nor have they alleged that they asked to withdraw the large report-triggering bill in favor of a smaller delay-free bill and were denied that opportunity.”
The court dismissed the lawsuit in its entirety. A copy of the decision is available in a 100k PDF file at the source link below.
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Chandler v. FDOT (US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 9/19/2012)
..gee, what an effing’ shock….an effing’ corrupt set of judges…giving the company they (the state) decides to do business with…the right to “detain” you, though you are really not detained..you just can’t go anywhere..because the effin’ fascists have decided they have complete control over you..business or government it doesn’t matter they are all the same now….effing’ fascism …impeach the judges..charge and convict them of treason..and then hang all of their fascists asses from some tree right outside the “courthouse”..and leave them hang there until they rot and the birds have picked them apart …make it “illegal” to take down the rotting, corrupt judges bodies and just let them hang there for all to see..especially those on the inside of the “courthouse”…hang them all…
Regards,
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves-The Life of an Insane Family
…by the way….who paid for the construction of that “toll-road”…because if it came from the taxpayers..the road belongs to them and I don’t care how much “outsourcing” fascist governments want to do…the road belongs to the taxpayer and they were detained illegally by state-contracted pigs…so I’d appeal the suit…except the fascist judges are looking out for their own paycheck..and will screw any of us “citizens” anyway they can…charge em, and convict all of the governments of this country (including the local and federal ones)…anyone acting outside the Constitution, or being found corrupt to a corporation..charge them all with treason and hang all of them…
Regards,
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves-The Life of an Insane Family
Heh, first they make it illegal to pay anything using gold or silver, then they raise the bar by saying what denominations of their worthless fiat currency you must pay with. If this isn’t lunacy, I don’t know what the hell is!
So, what would their reaction be if you tossed over a bag of pennies every time you went through the toll gate? It’s not a large denomination bill and you could make sure they’re counted out correctly – to the last penny. If I lived in Florida…………..
This is just to get everyone to use PayTag, EasyPass or some Credit Card or electronic form of payment when going through the toll booths. Just another way of getting the people used to using credit cards rather than money as well as taking jobs away from the people and replacing it with a computer to save the government money. More RFID’s and more control and more NWO style electronic currency. That’s all it is.
..impeach…charge and convict the entire 11 Circuit Court of Appeals…and when we find them guilty…hang every member of the court….as I said…rotting outside the courthouse..hang all of em..
Regards,
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves-The Life of an Insane Family
““The fact that a person is not free to leave on his own terms at a given moment, however, does not, by itself, mean that the person has been ‘seized’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment,” the court wrote in its unsigned decision. “In Florida, a person’s right and liberty to use a highway is not absolute; it may be regulated in the public interest through reasonable and reasonably executed regulations.”
Where DO they find these clowns, Barnum & Bailey’s?
“rotting outside the courthouse..hang all of em”
Who’s going to openly risk doing that?
That will make folks really want to show up for jury duty with that smell. Where you going to get fully informed jurors to show up? The court system is already broken, creepy, and fascist as it is. Such actions would only make things worse. DHS will start using that 1.45Billion bullets. With continuity of government and these oath breakers, they’ll go with military courts instead.
This all needs to go back to the fist guy that broke the constitution. Rectify that, then filter out the rest of the appointed scum underneath. The unholy trinity between, the media, the FCC, and potus must be broken up for just about anything to be fixed.
That’s where I would focus. Get the FCC engineers working for the people again, in the public’s interest. Bring back their original mission statement.
The rest of the oath breakers need to be arrested. NOT IMPEACHED, impeached implies consent. These are oath breaking criminals, they have no legitimacy.
Let them complain, when the electronic toll collection systems get in place there will be no need for toll booth operators.
Do employees of a private corporation have the “right” to detain or otherwise impede the movement of an individual? Does this also include the employees of all the other so called Agencies etc etc which are in fact also private companies no matter which false flag they sail under.