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https://tdefender.substack.com/p/chd-appeal-after-court-rules-against-woman-sued-national-park-service-no-cash-policy

CHD to Appeal After Court Rules Against Woman Who Sued National Park Service Over No-Cash Policy

Toby Stover, who sued the National Park Service after it refused to allow her to pay cash to enter a national park site, plans to appeal after a federal judge on Dec. 3 dismissed her case.

Attorney Ray Flores said he will appeal after a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against the National Park Service, alleging the federal agency is in violation of U.S. law by refusing to accept U.S. currency as entry payment.

Flores filed the suit on March 6, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of Toby Stover and two other plaintiffs. Children’s Health Defense (CHD) funded the suit. He said he was disappointed in the court’s decision to dismiss the complaint.

“On the other hand, the Court did not rule on the merits of the case, which would have set an unfavorable precedent.”

In its dismissal, the court said Stover lacked standing to sue the park system — meaning she didn’t have the legal right to bring the suit because she didn’t show that she was “suffering an ongoing injury” or faced an “immediate threat of injury.”

The court initially dismissed all three plaintiffs’ claims, but allowed them to submit an amended complaint, which Stover alone did on March 4, 2025.

Stover tried to visit the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site national park in Hyde Park in January 2024. Park officials turned her away when she tried to use a $10 bill to pay her entrance fee.

According to the amended complaint, “Stover still wants to visit Hyde Park whenever she wants but will not do so if she continues to be denied her right to tender anything other than legal U.S. Currency.”

Now, nearly 30 national parks, historic sites and monuments deny entrance to those who try to pay with cash, the amended complaint said. The park service Cashless Fee Collection FAQ states that it accepts only credit, debit and other electronic forms of payment, such as Apple Pay.

According to the complaint, federal statute (U.S. Code Title 31, Section 5103) makes it clear that “United States coins and currency … are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.” ...

Plus, the impact of a cashless society goes far beyond just a single purchase, because cashless payments limit a person’s “ability to be free from tracking and surveillance, which is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” Mack Rosenberg said.

Booger says

The tap one I use my phone. They can't get the card number, it's encrypted. They need to hold me at phone point to ever use my phone tap, which would likely be an armed robbery. The phone has to be open. The swiper scanners are much easier for fraud. I also get an immediate push notification IF I somehow got scammed and would start a dispute in under a minute and it goes away.

The quoted video would get useless scrambled garbage that they'd have to figure out how to unencoded on the tap scanner. Likely not happening. Waiting for it, but what about restaurants? Even sit down ones usually take it. When you pay cash at those places who is to say the server is not comping some food and taking your cash that the owner doesn't get?

There's no safe way to pay, but there are safer ways. I think the phone tap is the safest because it requires your own ID or code to work.

https://appfrontier.com/blog/how-contactless-payments-work-nfc-technology-explained

Sure, electronic payments help stop robberies, but make everyone far more subject to arbitrary government control.

The government gets:

1. to know what you bought
2. to know where you are right now, and send police to your location
3. the ability to stop your purchase for political reasons

It's creates an extreme danger of absolute technocratic control, something much worse than the threat of robbery.

The left will use this power to suppress dissent.

And anyway, electronic payments actually facilitate certain kinds of robbery, as the video shows.

Booger says

Lol, it was almost certainly the store owners themselves who installed the skimmer.