21.   More than half the states limit punitive damages or require higher evidence standards to award them.

22.   Out of that came state limits on how far boats must stay from the whales as well as protection for their feeding ground.

23.   States have very limited ability to regulate in this arena.

24.   The court has not said, however, whether states can limit the service of their own state legislators.

25.   The state severely limited irrigation water for farmers in the basin this year to protect endangered fish.

26.   The state would limit its use of expert witnesses and take several depositions at the same time to speed the process, they said.

27.   The state has limited authority to tell its citizens how to treat their bodies before death and should not be allowed to extend that role after it.

28.   The state limits its profit, which eliminates the incentive to cut costs.

29.   The Supreme Court agreed to consider this year whether states can constitutionally limit the terms that members of Congress may serve.

30.   Tribes have long complained that while Washington state limits tribal gambling, it supports a multi-million-dollar lottery and the biggest pulltab market in the nation.