Exceptions may be made for trivial violations that were corrected immediately.
Regulators will need to avoid pursuing trivial violations, given the costly and labor-intensive nature of enforcement.
Hall, who helped launch the barbecue sauce and spice rib company in 2009, said owners of small companies like his often believe government has a "gotcha" attitude toward regulatory enforcement, "lying in wait to penalize" business owners for often trivial violations.
During the oral argument in April, Chief Justice John G. Roberts voiced the fears of the industry, asking if a company could be sued for fraud over trivial violations.
When Robert Parker, the Trump administration lawyer who argued for the government, answered that authorities expect applicants for naturalization to disclose even trivial violations, Roberts wasn't having it.
These include reducing overall immigration flows into the U.S., tightening requirements on H-1B visas (a critical pipeline of talent in technical industries), and increasing deportations of legal residents for trivial violations.
According to the Los Angeles Times, people have complained that many of the traffic citations issued through the red-light-camera program have been on the "trivial" violations, such as a "rolling stop" while turning right at a red light, the kind of violation an experienced police officer might ignore.
Another man in his 60s, who declined to be named because he felt targeted by the injunction, said he could be detained just for greeting a friend in the street while whites rode bikes without lights and walked dogs off leashes, trivial-seeming violations that underlined racial inequity.
In 1997 it had 14 plants on its "watch list" and fined others for such trivial non-safety violations as recording maintenance records on the wrong form.
The police wrote up the incident as "harassment in the second degree," which is not even a misdemeanor but a violation, a trivial charge comparable to disorderly conduct.
It is slightly sloppy maybe, though, failing to distinguish between those who snuck across the border and those who have committed some trivial or medium-sized violation since coming legally, and conflating two different problems.Is it dehumanising?
