1.   A few years before that, a woman in Houston was found innocent of violating a city ordinance that prohibits people from entering restrooms designated for the opposite sex.

2.   A court ruling reined in some cybersquatting last year by prohibiting people from registering some trademarked names in a Web address.

3.   A state rule adopted last spring prohibits people from entering the nesting area from February to July.

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

5.   Current law already prohibits people from blocking access on a sidewalk.

6.   Even before the terrorist attacks, some legislators wanted to prohibit people with concealed handgun licenses from carrying their pistols into the Capitol.

7.   Federal officials are writing rules that will prohibit people from doing anything that significantly harms the fish or its habitat unless specifically exempted.

8.   Florida is the only state with a law prohibiting gay people, couples and individuals, from adopting children.

9.   In prohibiting people from loitering in the parks, Menino is drawing on a longstanding city ordinance that has not been enforced on the Common or Public Garden.

10.   In the past, many resorts prohibited people from heading into the trees, or at least frowned upon it.