While the so-called anti-sodomy law is not commonly enforced, it has been selectively used.
It is but just to say, however, that the power of a publice officer to question the constitutionality of a statute as an excuse for refusing to enforce it has often been assumed, and sometimes directly decided, to exist.
Our legal framework and the way we enforce it has provided more scope here for abuses by the financial sector; for perverse compensation for chief executives; for monopolies' ability to take unjust advantage of their concentrated power.
The gap between the requirements of the law and the resources provided to the executive branch to enforce it has always meant that the president has to make choices about which undocumented immigrants to deport and why.
It states that developers can do whatever they want with the programs, even sell their own versions, as long as they make the source code available.Although this licence, called the General Public License (GPL), has never been enforced, it has done much to keep open-source software from splintering into competing commercial versions, open-source advocates say.
The Clean Air Act, and the EPA's ability to enforce it, has saved over 160,000 lives in 2010 alone, according to a new report by the EPA.
But even the police concede that they rarely enforce it, having no desire to further increase tensions.
As the South African Government has determinedly held to the apartheid system, as the repression and violence needed to enforce it have increased, relations with the United States have deteriorated.
Since, in practice, the closed season is hardly enforced, nor easily enforceable, it has been ineffective.
This law is widely ignored, and when the government has tried to enforce it, it has often met with strong resistance from the men with the chainsaws.
