21.   A different appeals court, however, struck down a similar Louisiana law, saying a federal law bars that kind of regulation.

22.   A century-old law still bars foreign ships from boarding passengers at one American port and discharging them at another before stopping at a foreign port.

23.   A New Mexico law bars anyone convicted of a felony from seeking election unless the candidate has received a pardon from the governor.

24.   Accountants and lawyers, after all, are generally barred by law from being part owners of clients.

25.   All along, federal law has barred the companies from directly lobbying the Transportation Department official who oversees the process, A. Bradford Mims.

26.   British law also bars publicity beyond rudimentary facts about a case either before or during a trial.

27.   But the law does not bar public officials from soliciting donations elsewhere either before and after functions on federal property.

28.   But the judge said it was constitutional for the law to bar traditional tobacco industry defenses.

29.   But the great majority of Seabourn passengers are Americans, and U.S. law bars U.S. citizens from spending money in Cuba without a special license.

30.   But the judge said it was constitutional for the law to bar some traditional tobacco industry defenses.