1.  Asked to officiate this dispute, Judge Margot Botsford will be wading into uncharted legal waters.

2.  Attempts by nations to bring foreign rulers to justice for crimes against humanity are excursions into uncharted legal waters.

3.  Behrens is venturing into legal waters that no one else in this country has ever successfully crossed, said his attorney, Joshua Kaufman.

4.  A break between the states and the Justice Department would throw the case into uncharted and possibly stormy legal waters.

5.  But in doing so they are exploring relatively uncharted legal waters.

6.  Experts say that the summons Chirac received pushed a little further, testing uncharted legal waters.

7.  Meeting in Basel, the shareholders were also told of two lawsuits filed this week that further clouded the legal waters surrounding the unwinding of Swissair.

8.  Now she is about to travel through scarcely charted legal waters as the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit that accuses President Clinton of improper sexual advances.

9.  The league could be headed for dangerous legal waters.

10.  The legal waters into which Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and President Clinton have plunged are murky and relatively unexplored, criminal law experts said on Thursday.