Terry Schiavo Continuation Thread

[tomballin]

High Court Rejects New Schiavo Request
ABC News - Midnight

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. Mar 30, 2005 — The U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case for the sixth time late Wednesday, taking less than two hours to reject her parents' request that the feeding tube for their brain-damaged daughter be reinserted.

The one-sentence ruling came hours after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resoundingly declined to intervene in the case. Justices did not explain their decision and there was no indication how they voted.

The Supreme Court's decision, on Schiavo's 13th day without food or water, was the latest in a string of losses in state and federal courts for her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and the second time in a week the high court rejected the parents' claims.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=628035

[tomballin]

President Bush Today at Lunch
March 30, 2005

"Anyone else hungry, I sure am. Feels like I haven't eaten in weeks"

[Jesterstar]

That Bush has Balls

[Nickdfresh]

I hear she's on the way out, close to death that is.

[Nickdfresh]

She's dead! CNN now reporting.

[vanzilla]

Nikk - is this on the air? I'm not seeing it on their homepage and I'm not around a tv?

[vanzilla]

Fox news homepage reporting it. Thanks for the heads up!

[vanzilla]

Terri Schiavo has died
Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 10:07 AM EST (1507 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the centerpiece of a national right-to-die battle, died Thursday morning, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade.

Brother Paul O'Donnell, a spokesman for Bob and Mary Schindler, Schiavo's parents, said the couple was with their daughter's body and praying.

Wednesday, the Schindlers lost what their lawyer described as their "last meaningful legal appeal" in their desperate battle to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reinserted.

The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday refused once again to hear an emergency appeal from the Schindlers.

Their lawyer, David Gibbs, heard the high court had rejected the appeal during a news conference outside the Pinellas Park, Florida, hospice where Schiavo was receiving care.

"It appears that that will be the last meaningful legal appeal unless something comes up," Gibbs had said. "Fundamentally, the decision of the Florida courts will remain unchanged and the federal courts have declined to get involved."

Thursday morning, O' Donnell said that Schiavo was in her final hours of life, and police have prohibited her blood relatives from spending time with her.

O'Donnell, one of the family's spiritual advisers, said that her parents and siblings were "begging to be at her bedside...but are being denied."

Michael Schiavo was Terri's guardian and controlled who may visit her and when.

Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer in Clearwater, Florida, ordered the feeding tube removed March 18 at Michael Schiavo's request. He has said that his wife wouldn't have wanted to live in her condition -- what Florida courts have deemed a "persistent vegetative state."

The parents felt otherwise and had sought to take guardianship of their daughter from her husband. Their bitter court battles began in 1998.

"I don't understand why Michael Schiavo at some point didn't walk away," Gibbs said.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has jurisdiction over Florida, Georgia and Alabama, and could have ruled on the petition on his own, referred the appeal to the entire Supreme Court at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday.

There was no breakdown of the vote, and the high court issued no explanation for its decision. The petition had been filed earlier in the night.

It was the second time in a week the high court refused to hear the case, and the sixth time since 2001.

The Schindlers "can know they have done everything possible under the law in letting government know that they wanted to fight for the life of their daughter," Gibbs said.

In his Supreme Court filing, Gibbs and other lawyers for the parents wrote that removing the tube represented "an unconstitutional deprivation of Terri Schiavo's constitutional right to life."

The Supreme Court's rejection came hours after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, rejected the parents' petition 9-2. That court denied three similar requests from the parents last week.

In a concurring opinion of the Atlanta court's latest ruling, Judge Stanley Birch said Congress "chose to overstep constitutional boundaries" by passing a law to force the Schiavo case into federal courts.

Judges Gerald Tjoflat and Charles Wilson dissented, with Tjoflat writing that the Schindlers deserved a hearing on the merits of their argument.

On March 21, three days after Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, Congress passed a bill transferring jurisdiction of the case from Florida state court to a U.S. District Court, for a federal judge to review. President Bush signed it into law the next day. But federal courts refused to overturn the state courts' decision.

[Phil theStalker]

Originally posted by vanzilla
Terri Schiavo has died
Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 10:07 AM EST (1507 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terri Schiavo, .

All you keyboard commandos I beat your sick voyeristic consent.

Check da post time.

Lock dis thread and go t2o my reality thread.

It's t2oo late.

[tomballin]

Typical, I turn on the TV to check out the Schiavo passing news and President Dumbass is holding a press conference on revamping intelligence that is on all major news channels. How convenient.

[academic punk]

Well, I support that. I'd rather have had him focusing on national security all along, in the first place.

[academic punk]

Poor woman. She's probably looking down right now and wondering why everyone she loved in her life have spent all these years (and all the rest of thier lives) in all these power struggles.

[tomballin]

What, and control our Mexican borders, ....never, it "just wouldn't be white"

[academic punk]

Originally posted by tomballin
What, and control our Mexican borders, ....never, it "just wouldn't be white"

valid.

[Jesterstar]

Honestly her death is a serious injustice. The more I've read about it. The more I've seen. There was no reason to deny the parents access to her. There was no reason to deny water or food. The attention to this case is part of a evil agenda. I'm really upset about this now at this point. Because now it opens a door for much more brital death for many that may not be brain dead.