In Colorado, a bill to prohibit job ads from requiring applicants to be employed failed to make it out of a House Committee, which voted 7-5 Tuesday against an unemployment discrimination proposal.

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That could well be a violation of IRS rules that prohibit tax-exempt organizations from transferring assets to private individuals.

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They fear that regulators will no longer be satisfied with the internal rules that prohibit advisory teams at a bank from giving traders confidential information.

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But the court relied on a basic principle of most established legal systems, that what is not specifically prohibited should be allowed, and ruled that the trademark law did not prohibit lawyers from acting as agents and that, moreover, a 1997 law governing lawyers said that they could provide any legal service, and that filing trademarks was certainly a legal service.

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We prohibit government officials from trading cash for favors because we want our government to be exclusively loyal to the interests of the general public as reflected by our laws and elected officials.

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Don't be surprised if the administration pushes for the controversy over commercial banks' handling of derivatives trading to be addressed by the so-called "Volcker Rule, " which would prohibit commercial banks from making speculative bets for their own account--known as proprietary trading--as opposed to the benefit of their customers.

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Companies providing services that help politicians raise money have to be very careful not to run afoul of campaign finance regulations, which prohibit corporations and labor unions from facilitating contributions to political campaigns or committees.

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The Indiana bill, in addition to destroying collective bargaining with public employees, would prohibit unions in the private sector from negotiating agreements with employers requiring that all workers be union members as a condition of employment.

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