1.   An intensely skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether the Constitution prohibits states from discriminating against older Americans.

2.   Another section would prohibit states from denying applications for DNA testing by death row inmates provided such tests have the scientific potential to produce exculpatory evidence.

3.   Assistant Attorney General Rebecca McIntyre argued that Congress did not specifically prohibit the states from passing laws that allow disclosure.

4.   At the core of the Cairo debate is the question whether the final policy statement should prohibit states from promoting abortion as a method of family planning.

5.   Based on the constitutional principle that federal law is supreme, it prohibits states from interfering with federal regulation.

6.   A bill that would prohibit states from imposing new taxes on Internet service providers is expected to be debated this week in the Senate.

7.   But in a controversial move to help fund the package, the administration plans to lift a ban that prohibits states from attaching tolls to existing interstate highways.

8.   But the governor could not go this route because a federal law prohibits states from taxing the type of insurance coverage provided by most large employers.

9.   But the law had confidentiality provisions that explicitly prohibited the state from releasing many other details of the suicides, she added.

10.   But Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell countered that the First Amendment prohibits states from giving tuition assistance to religious schools.