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

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

3.   But many sports columnists defend McGwire with many novel theories.

4.   But the rules the government now seeks to impose on Microsoft are based on novel economic theories that have strongly influenced antitrust chief Joel Klein.

5.   In Massachusetts, the attorney general recently proposed the novel theory that guns can be regulated under existing consumer safety laws.

6.   In the current issue of the journal Nature, he describes a novel theory of brain formation that focuses on mechanical stresses and strains.

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

8.   Jim Balderston, an analyst with Zona Research Inc. in Redwood City, has a novel theory on the case.

9.   Novel legal theories are emerging.

10.   Textbook writers rushed to add Israel to the maps, and add chapters discussing novel new theories about whether Jews might be human.