11.   Any federal lawsuit brought to recover Medicare money would face the same hurdles as the state lawsuits, which were based on novel legal theories.

12.   ASH develops kits and legal theories under which nonsmokers can file legal complaints.

13.   Both had expressed some uncertainty about the other legal theories behind the Bush appeal.

14.   Bush says such suits are based on exotic legal theories concocted by greedy lawyers.

15.   But he has pleaded not guilty, mounting a defense based on an untested legal theory of Internet addiction stemming from his immersion in the virtual world.

16.   But conservative legal theory advanced by judicial appointees of Presidents Reagan and Bush is a forbidding obstacle to national environmental regulation.

17.   But federal prosecutors decided, instead, to bring the case in criminal court, using novel legal theories over the definition of fraud.

18.   But in general, the protesters have adopted a legal theory arguing that white males have a superior citizenship.

19.   But its re-emergence as a viable legal theory is dividing the legal community.

20.   But others, including a pending case filed by New York State, used completely different legal theories and most likely would not be affected.