On 9/20/2011 3:38 PM, Ian Batten wrote:
They're hardly going to say "we publish the regulations, but don't worry, we don't 
enforce them", are they?  If they're enforced to the nearest minute, it shouldn't be 
hard for them to find a court case in which they were enforced to the nearest minute.
I'm inclined to agree with "They're hardly going to say 'we publish the regulations, but don't worry, we don't enforce them', are they?" but that is just my own personal perception of how government agencies work; I have not a shred of proof.

I strongly disagree with "If they're enforced to the nearest minute, it shouldn't be hard for them to find a court case in which they were enforced to the nearest minute." So far as I know, such cases are not available online. My understanding is that only appellate court decisions are online, and then, only the most important appellate courts, or recent cases. I would not be surprised if the basic facts, such as a person of a certain name being convicted of a certain offense on a certain date being available in some kind of log or index at the courthouse, but the details of the case, such as how many minutes elapsed from the close of legal hunting hours to the time of the offense could be contained on a tape recording of the trial, perhaps never having been put in text form.

Of course, if there is a search strategy I'm overlooking, feel free to point it out.

Gerard Ashton
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