31.   He wanted to gamble on an untested legal theory.

32.   He was also credited with developing a legal theory that blocked Southern voter registrars from holding potential black voters to a higher standard than whites.

33.   His lawyers say the reason is that Wilson pushes groundbreaking legal theories.

34.   In addition to clashing legal theories, changing public attitudes may steer the course of the controversy, legal experts say.

35.   In a ruling last June, the justices considered four conflicting legal theories.

36.   In that case, all nine justices agreed the ban was unconstitutional, but no single legal theory garnered a majority of the court.

37.   In this time of super-heated partisanship especially, such a tempting weapon is unlikely to stay safely holstered in a snuggery of abstract legal theory.

38.   Instead of advancing a novel legal theory, the Class Action Charity Foundation in Beaumont, Texas, represents an exercise in creative philanthropy.

39.   It said the known evidence required an independent counsel, and advanced a refreshing legal theory that campaign finance laws mean what they say.

40.   IV The conflict between the Second and Third Circuits, it bears emphasis, is no longer over the correct legal theory.