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There might be no penalty for breaking a regulation but if you do that and cause harm, then you are at fault, which obviously has legal consequences. I think a

• throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Unless there's breach of contract involved you've usually got a basic tort lawsuit. The bar for civil infraction charge is generally lower in practice than for a tort judgement. The state can pass whatever stupid law it wants and then get conviction based on the fact that the law was broken even if nobody is injured. For a lawsuit you need injury. A prior civil or criminal case can be pointed to in order to establish a fact pattern but a fact pattern doesn't win you a lawsuit. That said, in reality there's generally an exception if the person you're suing is a class of person that doesn't in practice get equal protection under the law (people who are drunk when the problem happened and people who have been convicted of certain crimes are the most common classes of people who suffer this fate).