41.  All four of the other cases are still pending but they played a role in helping Massachusetts to shape its lawsuit, Tribe said.

42.  Both men are being held at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Center, but Canadian officials say the two cases are unrelated.

43.  But any comparison of the two cases is unwarranted because this is not about the exercise of public power entrusted to the highest office.

44.  But a lawyer representing Advanced Micro disputed that view, with regards to at least one of the three cases.

45.  But at least one member of Congress suggested that he would like to know more about how the two cases were handled.

46.  But FDA officials say they are worried about the four cases and have made the investigation a high priority.

47.  But if there is a thread connecting what is known about the three cases, it is materiality.

48.  But in an interview Finnegan said that the other case was different because the defendants had refused to accept a plea agreement that he offered.

49.  But in four of the five cases, the story was different four years later, as the incumbents were swept out of office.

50.  But many of the legal issues in the two cases are substantially different.