1.   The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.

2.   The second closed the federal courthouse door to some first-time petitioners.

3.   A long black cloth drapes the courthouse door.

4.   But it would also close the courthouse door to small investors who have bought stock based on fraudulent information.

5.   But Rep. John Bryant, D-Texas, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the measure would effectively close courthouse doors to the middle class.

6.   Consumer groups and trial lawyers argued that such proposals would close courthouse doors to people with no other recourse.

7.   It noted that the law did close the courthouse door to most challenges to deportation.

8.   Some who do not make it keep a vigil at the courthouse doors and clasp framed photographs of Selena to their chests.

9.   Television networks seized on the Legacy, directly across from the courthouse door, as the perfect vantage point for their cameras.

10.   That is why it is trying so hard to shut courthouse doors.