Some states forbid online sales, others restrict cross-border shipments.
Dozens of states forbid the practice; this year, Connecticut has considered a bill that would have ended cross-endorsements there.
Most private insurance companies have abandoned the use of Social Security numbers as identifiers because many states forbid it.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now prohibit teenagers from driving with another teenager, and all but seven states forbid them from driving with more than one.
"Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now prohibit teenagers from driving with another teenager," she reports, "and all but seven states forbid them from driving with more than one.
And laws already in effect in Arizona, Delaware and other states forbid nurses, pharmacists and others to use the title "doctor" unless they immediately identify their profession.
Many states forbid utility shutoffs in the winter, and, with or without aid, struggling families sometimes put off payments, building up arrears.
Although some states forbid prospective parents to use facilitators, California allows the practice, and the industry is only lightly regulated there.
For a long time Mintz and Feinblatt avoided an answer because, while they didn't want to lie, they also didn't want to focus their daughters' attention on the blunt truth: that New York, like most states, forbade it.
Some states forbid or restrict the taking of horseshoe crabs.
There are also laws in most states forbidding grave robbing, or digging up human remains from burial places.
