The Justice Department and the S.E.C. last year also wrote a guide to enforcing the cases, and the S.E.C. has even built a unit dedicated to such cases.
Cambridge wasn't sure that the benefits of enforcing the law, in this case, were greater than the benefits of allowing the offender an unimpeded future.
Now the principle is: Ignorance of the law is no excuse unless you're the cop enforcing the law, in which case it is, or at least can be, depending upon whether your ignorance is reasonable or not, to be determined upon later review.
Some of the court's most vital decisions (cases enforcing the voting rights of African-Americans, protecting the rights of prisoners and criminal defendants, holding it unconstitutional to deny interracial couples the right to marry, etc).
Enforcing the Constitution in concrete cases in turn requires judicial engagement--the evidence-based pursuit of the government's true ends and means, without deference to government officials' beliefs or desires, in determining whether particular assertions of government power over individuals are lawful.
However, it differs from Holt-Winters in the Gaussian case by enforcing the restriction that the seasonals sum to zero.
Of course, this is a case of "enforcing the gun laws on the books" that the NRA would rather ignore.
The government has dealt with this confusing situation by not enforcing the laws, except in rare cases, most notably United States v. Extreme Associates, when a porn company was prosecuted for its extreme content, which included vomit-drinking, simulated rape, and Jesus-on-angel sex.
For Greece, desperately seeking new growth, the prospect of economic sanctions that might keep Russian tourists away is the cause of much worry.Targeted sanctions can be hard to enforce: in the case of Libya some transactions slipped through the net simply because there are so many ways to spell Qaddafi.
And though France's anti-freedom of expression "hate speech" laws can often be selectively enforced (witness the case of the anti-semitic comedian Dieudonné, which I wrote about here), none of that exculpates such an attack, nor does it excuse discourse on France by a clutch of writers who barely know the country at all.
