71.   A state law already prohibits throwing objects onto playing surfaces, but prosecutors must prove the person meant to cause injury.

72.   A spokeswoman for the Australian Embassy in Washington said laws prohibited it from commenting on individual visa applications.

73.   A spokesman for the American Embassy in Ankara said privacy laws prohibited him from commenting on whether officials had been refused access to Fuat.

74.   According to the Taliban, Koranic law prohibits the payment of interest.

75.   Abshier said the exotic birds can become aggressive, and state law prohibits them from roaming free.

76.   According to Manning, she testified that the transactions were recorded as loans because Arizona campaign-finance laws prohibited gifts of that size.

77.   Across the South, miscegenation laws prohibited black and white people from marrying.

78.   Administration officials have said federal law prohibits disaster aid to commercial utilities.

79.   Broadly, the law prohibits discrimination in hiring, promoting, re-employing, firing or providing employee benefits because of military obligations.

80.   But because existing federal law prohibits such research projects, the state has not set one up.