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The vending machine industry would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars so its machines could handle new currency that blind people could use if a new ruling on U.S. bills is enforced. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled Tuesday that the current bills discriminate against blind people. He ordered the Treasury Department to find a solution. "If the government is mandated to change U.S. currency, there would be a tremendous financial impact across a number of industries, including the automated vending industry," said Jim Brinton, a director of the National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA), a trade association of...