11.   Anti-trust law bars such meetings.

12.   Antitrust laws bar manufacturers from dictating the retail price of their goods.

13.   Another concern, expressed by Consumers Union, was that lenders might seek to require loan applicants to purchase another product, a tie-in generally barred by law.

14.   At least two federal laws bar career employees from using taxpayer dollars to lobby for or against pending legislation.

15.   Barred by law from seeking a third straight term, he ran for the Senate but lost the nomination to Robert A. Taft Jr.

16.   Because the state law bars only people who serve time in prison from voting, that disparity amounts to discrimination against black citizens, they said.

17.   Before that time, the law flatly barred qui tam claims if they involved fraud allegations the government already knew about.

18.   Both the district court and the appellate court ruled that the law also bars discrimination against aliens.

19.   -- Said it will decide whether a federal worker-benefit law bars a state government from regulating apprenticeship programs.

20.   A bipartisan law bars federal recognition of gay or lesbian partnerships as marriages, and lets states do the same.