Okay but does that mean anything regarding the parent commentor's analogy or the article?

Child-run lemonade stands are technically illegal in most states (some have actually carved out exemptions for them because of overzealous policing).

Garage sales often have a specific carve out, also, and limitations on numbers of time per year, etc.

Most areas nobody cares at all until it becomes a nuisance somehow.

Selectively enforced laws are the worst kind of law.

I've always thought it would be interesting to allow as a defense against a violation of a law to prove that the law is regularly violated without consequence.

Because selectively enforced laws are just another way of saying you have a king at some level, the person who decides to enforce or not.

Selective prosecution is a defense under the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.

However, the Supreme Court has left the prescribed remedy intentionally vague since 1996, which in turn makes the claims themselves less likely to be raised, and less likely to succeed.

https://wlr.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1263/2022/...

You have some control over this as an ordinary citizen. Next time you're on a jury for a lemonade stand violation, nullify.

Has a lemonade stand violation ever resulted in a jury trial in the US? I'm skeptical. In places that enforce those rules, usually what happens is that the cops tell the parent it isn't allowed, the kid shuts it down and there's no fine.

Or it turns into a giant PR disaster for the cops.

Don't tell that to the GDPR defenders.

I am a gdpr defender. I would like stricter enforcement.