11.   Lawyers say bankruptcy laws prohibit people from doling out available cash as gifts to avoid paying debts.

12.   Moreover, the federal Fair Housing Act does not prohibit people from making housing decisions based on marital status.

13.   Of course, people are not prohibited from praying on their own whenever they see fit.

14.   Other new laws prohibit people from sleeping on the beach or bathing in fountains.

15.   Presbyterian theology does not prohibit people from being members or holding office because of their sexual orientation, Stotts said, but gay Presbyterians are required to remain celibate.

16.   Rules of the vaccine trial prohibit people who are taking part in other trials.

17.   Securities laws prohibit people who are in a position of fiduciary responsibility and who have access to material, nonpublic information from trading on that knowledge.

18.   That rule prohibits people with private or corporate interest in matters pending before Congress from performing free staff work that could gain them unfair advantage over such legislation.

19.   That provision prohibits people who have been involuntarily committed to mental institutions from buying a handgun.

20.   The act prohibits people from altering whale behavior.