1.   The Supreme Court, in its most recent Decision, barred school officials from arranging prayers at graduation ceremonies.

2.   The vote would ask approval of stiffer penalties for corruption, including barring convicted officials from office.

3.   And this summer a federal judge in Alabama issued a temporary injunction barring disciplinary officials from removing from office, a state Supreme Court justice, Harold F.

4.   Both men have been accused of violating a century-old law that bars public officials from soliciting contributions on government property.

5.   Abrams, the First Amendment specialist who is representing the museum, focused on decisions that have barred officials from imposing punishment for unpopular expression.

6.   Broderick said he based his legal argument on a state law that bars officials from unreasonable or unnecessary spending.

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

8.   Conflict-of-interest laws bar former officials of a federal agency for years from turning around and trying to persuade the agency to do something.

9.   Federal law bars union officials from using union money for their campaigns.

10.   Federal ethics laws bar officials leaving the government from a variety of contacts with former colleagues.