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Court allows spoken number but rejects legal name 1069
Minnesota Supreme Court ruled the man may call himself 1069 as a common law right but cannot legally change his name to the number. The decision upholds a 1978 ruling that it would be dehumanizing to identify a person solely by a numeral. The court noted society relies on letters for identification.
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St. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Supreme Court
Minneapolis
Michael Herbert Dengler
Social Security Administration
Minnesota
Dengier
North Dakota Supreme Court
Minnnesota Supreme Court
Dengler
Juan Nyen
Donald Barbeau
Barbeau