11.   A federal appeals court, however, said Lundell did not qualify as a public figure, and could win libel damages under looser legal standards.

12.   A new provision in the federal immigration law, approved by Congress and President Clinton last fall, relaxes the legal standard used in considering asylum for Chinese refugees.

13.   A lawyer for The Times, Adam Liptak, told Judge Scheindlin Friday that the secrecy in the case went far beyond the acceptable legal standard.

14.   After disagreeing with that legal standard, the appeals court ordered a new trial.

15.   But critics said the bill would go further than the Adarand decision because it would outlaw even those programs that could survive the higher legal standard.

16.   But direct proof against him that rises to American legal standards has been hard to obtain.

17.   But for feminist leaders, wrestling over legal standards misses the danger involved.

18.   But if reporters were to hew to legal standards, very little would be reported beyond what officials want people to hear.

19.   But in moving to dismiss the indictments, the district attorney argued that the case had grown old, witnesses had shifted companies and legal standards had changed.

20.   But the legal standards for monopoly leveraging are disputed, and federal courts have taken sharply differing views of when that kind of conduct breaks the law.