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- noun
Inadequate enforcement (of a law, statute, etc.).
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Examples
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Most are spared them, but only because of underenforcement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably a Federal Criminal: 2009
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But Justices Stevens and Ginsburg, in their dissenting opinion, said "it is clear that the elimination of police discretion was integral to Colorado and its fellow states 'solution to the problem of underenforcement in domestic violence cases."
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Finally, Katyal discussed the role of private underenforcement of copyright law.
AALS Art Law Panel, part two Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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But Justices Stevens and Ginsburg, in their dissenting opinion, said "it is clear that the elimination of police discretion was integral to Colorado and its fellow states' solution to the problem of underenforcement in domestic violence cases."
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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One commenter noted that "in an absence of private rights of action, . . . there is likely to be significant underenforcement of privacy interests" because of Federal and State authorities'
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Past refusals to suppress some mob action - which left victims to fend for themselves, sometimes with their private arms - have stemmed from deliberate governmental underenforcement of normal criminal law, not from law-abiding citizens 'right to carry guns.
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Past refusals to suppress some mob action — which left victims to fend for themselves, sometimes with their private arms — have stemmed from deliberate governmental underenforcement of normal criminal law, not from law-abiding citizens’ right to carryguns.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment” 2009
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