[LEAPSECS] Legal violation for failure to know sunrise/sunset to nearest minute

[Doug Calvert]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

>


http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22hunting+season%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=4%2C46&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=hunting+season+time&btnG=Search&as_sdt=4%2C46&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

I do not have the time or inclination to go through the cases but that
is a decent start. It is very likely that the answer/precedent is not
about the timing of hunting season but the timing of any number of
vermont state regulations.

Residents of Vermont can probably go to their county courthouse
library and use a better case database than the one that is freely
available on google scholar.