hard cases make bad laws



hard cases make bad laws

Laws based on unique and unusual situations are ineffective or difficult to enforce. A: "Just because one idiot threw a cupcake in the cafeteria, we're banned from having food anywhere on campus." B: "I don't know how they're going to enforce that—hard cases make bad laws."
See also: bad, case, hard, law, make

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
DettaDET-əEnglish (Rare)
Svetoslav-Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Gerasimos-Greek
DagmarDAHK-mahr (German), DAHG-mahr (Finnish)Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, Czech, Slovak, Finnish
Unathi-Southern African, Xhosa
Katlyn-English (Modern)