The language we should be most concerned with is "while being violated", imo.While being violated, in my mind, means that there are 6 players on the court. If one comes off, then there are 5, which is the legal case.
If the Fed wanted to include the cases where the official is positive that 6 were on the court, but didn't actually see 6 players on the court,
then they have to clear up the wording.
The M-W definition of
while is:
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Originally Posted by http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/while
a period of time especially when short and marked by the occurrence of an action or a condition
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My belief is that said period of time ends when all excess players have left the playing court. The excess players leaving the playing court is the occurance mark that the definition speaks of.
This is exactly why officials need to pay attention to their surroundings!