Ashley Light operates Valuta, a money services business in El Paso, Texas. Her business has been severely harmed by a financial surveillance order from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Ashley has to file reports for any transaction over $200 when the normal reporting requirement is $10,000. The order only covers certain zip codes so Ashley is losing customers at the same time that she is spending many additional hours everyday filling out paperwork. She is suing with the Institute for Justice to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of her customers.
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