51.   There is no connection between the Nebraska law and the federal ban pushed by Republican leaders.

52.   There is a federal ban on assault weapons, but it has so many loopholes that some states have passed bans of their own to close them.

53.   This will allow for state prosecution of anyone violating the federal ban.

54.   Those accounts are exempt from federal limits on money from a single source and exempt from the federal ban on money from corporate or union treasuries.

55.   Three years later she was one of the parties in a suit that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and led to a federal ban on school prayer.

56.   -Will sign federal ban on macarena.

57.   President Clinton twice has vetoed a federal ban enacted by Congress.

58.   Also left intact was a federal ban on anyone, including police officers, possessing a gun after a domestic-violence conviction.

59.   Allen is also a longtime ally of gun-rights groups and opposed a federal ban on certain types of so-called assault weapons.

60.   Burlington employee David Escher said he hopes the case will lead to a federal ban on the practice.