There was also talk of challenging the Supreme Court's approval of the recounts, either in federal court or through legislation stating, in effect, that Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, a Republican, had correctly interpreted the Legislature's intent when she disallowed the manual recounts in Democratic strongholds in South Florida.
She also disallowed 43 home inspections, 39 late charges, and thousands of dollars in legal fees charged to the Stewarts' account.
She continues, "disallowing pricing based on preexisting conditions is like mandating that Las Vegas has to accept bets on the Super Bowl after the game is over". This is an utterly faulty comparison: The ACA doesn't allow anyone to wait until after a diagnosis to buy insurance, but allows purchases only during the annual open enrollment period for coverage starting the following Jan . 1
"All well?" she said cheerfully, disallowing any answer other than an affirmative.
A focus on individual leaders would ignore or disallow, she said, "a lot of the ways that change actually occurs, especially in a democracy".
She was called upon to pay, and did pay under protest, a tax imposed under the Revenue Act of 1916, based upon a supposed income of $19,877 because of the new shares; and an appeal to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue having been disallowed, she brought action against the Collector to recover the tax.
Though she has few viable options, she is no mere victim, and Fontaine disallows any comfortable high moral ground.
"It's not common to see a lot of kids at drag events, but there are a lot of events that you're privileged to have kids in the audience," she said, citing shows on college campuses and saying that she once did a "drag queen bingo for an elementary school". The reason most events disallow children, she said, is because they occur at venues that have liquor licenses and age requirements.
"I think it is unreasonable for museums that own their collections (as the Gardner does) to disallow photography," she wrote in an e-mail.
Babb said she was just trying to implement a city manager's directive to follow federal guidelines limiting compensatory time when she set a policy disallowing any compensatory time.
She did admit honoring the Texas concealed law that barely disallows taking a gun anywhere at any time.
