Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer

The Dulles airport access road has a toll-road that runs along side. The access road (non-toll) has a restriction that says it's only for legitimate airport use, primarily to try and keep folks from driving into the airport grounds, turning around, and avoiding the tolls (and the car pool restrictions on I-66 inside the beltway).

Some rather crafty folks started driving to the airport, buying a cup of coffee at the airport gas station, then turned around and headed down the access road bypassing tolls and the carpool restrictions.

The cops tried to issue tickets against these folks. The cases were promptly thrown out of court because buying merchandise (a cup of coffee) at an airport concessionare was held to be "legitimate airport use" by the courts.

I would submit that DHS and TSA better craft carefully lest they get sued the first time that law is enforced. Especially if the facility is a publicly-owned facility that was financed with taxpayer dollars.