The Bush administration has also started to enforce a little-known 1998 law that bars financial aid to students who have been convicted of even a minor drug offense.

The real lesson of the case, they say, is that it once again proves the potency of a little-known federal law that has become a crucial weapon for prosecutors.

Four Brooklyn landlords were arrested yesterday on charges of violating a little-known law by ignoring orders to correct hundreds of unsafe building code violations.

But under a little-known law, a company deemed irresponsible by any single Federal agency is automatically barred from doing business with any other agency of the executive branch.

The defendants are accused of violating a little-known law that prohibits merchants from putting sales through another merchant's credit card terminal.

At the same time, managers are studying the little-known law that protects soldiers' workplace rights.

As a result of a little-known law, British intelligence and security officers can commit serious criminal offences overseas and escape prosecution in the UK.

His "spindizzy" motors used a little-known law of physics (still undiscovered) to create their own gravity and their own motive force.

But the Justice Department said the provision, which expanded the reach of a little-known law passed in 1873, was clearly unconstitutional and would never be enforced.

LAST week, a Michigan court overturned a conviction based on a little-known law against cursing that, clearly, dated from a far different era.