Matt Barrow wrote:

But not, usually, to the pilot, and never to the pilot simply for
declaring an emergency.

Unless the declared emergency stems from a violation of the FAR's.

In that case, the pilot has not simply declared an emergency. The pilot has
violated FARs.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.