Fl Supreme Ct denies request to reinsert tube MSNBC 448pm PST - updated

Florida Supreme Court has denied most recent appeal to reinsert feeding tube

Just breaking on MSNBC..will look for link

__UPDATE 5:00pm PST____

Randall Terry is speaking to the crowd of reporters.

MSNBC is waiting for David Gibbs, Schindler lawyer, to explain what legal options are left.

Per reporter, all court avenues ahve been exhausted, no avenues left with the courts.

Will update with next "Breaking" news segment

I thoght so last time, but who knows...?

I heard yesterday that when their most-recent-but-not-most-recent trip to Federal Court had been dismissed, that they COULD be out of legal options but that they still had the option of revisiting all the federal/state courts and after all of those appeals had been denied, they could THEN AGAIN petition the Supreme Court---and if that wish was denied, they could go back through state/federal courts, try the supreme court again, ad nauseum

Maybe she didn't pay a traffic ticket. And they want her to appear and explain why she didn't pay it.

Judge Judy: Terri, you need to let us know what you want.

Terri Schiavo: ...

Judge Judy: I WILL NOT BE INGORED IN MY OWN COURTROOM

Terri Schiavo: NNG OT EEE NORR INAHH OWWHH CCOOORRAHHM!

Judge Judy: EEEGH BOOO FUMUUU GAHHH EEEK EEEK PIF

Terri Schiavo: ...

<cut to commercial>

"What...this again?"

can you imagine the Schindler family - the parents and the brother and sister - when they look up and this whole rightwingnut army has deserted them for a more newsworthy cause?

Maybe I am vindictive, after all...............

against people who tie up the courts with baseless and unfounded cases?

against people who use the legal system improperly?

hmm...silence with regards to this, though....

Suing corporations is bad. Litigating morality issues ad nauseum is good. Hell, half of the reason the freepers hate Michael Schiavo is because he successfully litigated against the doctors who fscked his wife's diagnosis.

:eyes:

He's scratching His head, asking "Didn't I take care of Terri fifteen years ago? Who ARE these people?"

moot.

Like Michael Jackson.

Like the battle over her body, the kind of funeral she'll receive, who can be present, and ultimately a wrongful death suit.

I don't see that these people will ever stop litigating.

I think they're going to strap her body to Roy's Rock and tour it around to the faithful.

At least that is what the lawyer said.

while preparing to give himself over to God, he does not feel that Ms. Schiavo should be allowed the same diginified end.

The hypocrisies all over this circus are nauseating.

They are abusing the system.

The republicans in congress are definitely abusing the system. I've got no problem with the Schindlers hashing this out in various venues, as long as everyone accepts the decision of the courts and doesn't resort to Jebbish behaviour. Unfortunately, the severe Jeb infestation of this process has certainly left the Florida courts in need of strong antibiotics.

Add another court decision to the tally.

send in the goon squads, one wonders?

:eyes:

been waiting for his wacky relatives to show up.

And though many here might loathe the parents, I personally want to send out my prayers to them as well as michael and Terri during these last few hours.

probably one of the few people on the planet who is not emotionally caught up in the drama of it all.

peace to all family members too. PLEASE let your healing begin.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- As the battle over Terri Schiavo's life rages in the courtrooms and halls of government, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman lies in a hospice bed, dependent on Florida taxpayers and the institution's charity for her care.

The $1 million received by her and her husband, Michael, in a medical malpractice case in 1993 is nearly gone, attorneys say, spent on her care and the husband's legal quest over the past seven years to stop her artificial feedings so she can die.
....
In a case where both sides have accused the other of being motivated by money, hardly anybody is getting paid anymore.

Michael Schiavo's attorneys say they have not been paid in more than two years. David Gibbs III, whose Clearwater law firm represents the Schindler family, said he is working for free, although a national anti-abortion group, Life Legal Defense Foundation, has paid some of his expenses and previously paid a Schindler attorney.
....
Just $40,000 to $50,000 remains of the money won in the malpractice case after Terri Schiavo's heart stopped in 1990 and left her in what court-appointed doctors say is a persistent vegetative state. Deborah Bushnell, one of Michael Schiavo's attorneys, said the money is being saved for litigation expenses.
The money is held in a trust fund, and a judge approves all expenditures, from attorneys' fees to the woman's haircuts.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brain-damaged-woman-money,0,1495196.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

rest in peace.

I hope there is not a grand stand on Easter. I fear there might be, since it is a religious holiday, and one of the resurrection. Resurrection....Terri gets resurrected, so to speak.

Never give the fundies a political cause and a three day weekend at the same time.

Terri and her husband and her parents.
The one's I abore are the one's making political hay out of this and the fundie drama queens who are latching on to this horrid spectacle.

This poor woman should be allowed to peacefully pass on. Should have a long time ago. I can understand parents to not want to let go. But they are being selfish. Poor Terri would probably be appalled at the spectacle that's been made of her. The human being that was Terri has been gone for 15 years.

This is so sad.

Schindlers' lawyer: Legal fight near end

(CNN) -- The Florida Supreme Court dismissed -- for the second time in a week -- a bid by Terri Schiavo's parents to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reconnected.

The state's highest court rejected an emergency petition Saturday night, saying it had no jurisdiction. On Thursday, the court had refused to hear the case.

A family spokesman said her parents are grief-stricken that she is dying.

Doctors do not expect Schiavo to live beyond next Friday.


Frankly it's about time that this sideshow should be put to rest. Other families have had to wade through this mess to enter that Hospice where they have loved ones whose lives are ending.
May Terri go in peace.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/26/schiavo/index.html

Many are brain damaged. I don't understand this canonization of Terri.

The doctors have said by test this women has been brain dead for about 15 years. I wondered why her husband waited so long and he really got into it on trying to do every thing.

Good long wide sidewalks, and quite a few of those down-home churches in houses too. There is a huge lawn out front as well, that maybe they could set up a tent on and hawk souveniers and food.

I find that whole display disgusting, designed to pump up Randall Terry and no one else. As for the husband of Mrs. Schiavo, I think he was determined to exhaust every possibility before he gave up hope.

CNN is finally covering the Delay parental DNR issue. Talk about hypocrisy in action!

Events like this are probably a lot of fun for religious fanatics, and it must be hard to give it up.

their 15 minutes of fame will have to last until the next 'righteous cause'.
These people make me sick.Everything they do has to be a spectacle!Even their religious believes have to be played out for all the world to see.

so many threads on du and all news sources is because it touches each and every one of us in some way or another. Whether we've had to deal with a similar situation or worry about it happening to us or one of our loved ones, we're all mortal and know anyone can be thrown into a situation like Terri was, and under the worst scenario, a family disagreement over what should be done.
God bless you Terri Schiavo and may you rest in peace at last.

Randall Terry front and center in that 2nd picture....

He should be locked up somewhere instead of running around free.

:grr:

I'm sure you don't mean he should be locked up for an opinion or for expressing an opinion.

I know he's a sleazy fellow, but let's be careful with that rhetoric.

who made fun of people who held vigils in opposition to the war in Iraq.

That war costs hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. They are making a ruckus over one. Talk about cost efficiency.

I favor the courts' decisions by and large on the Schiavo case. But how do you know the previous political positions of these people? How do you divine the minds of these individuals?

How do you determine the positions, of those people pictured, on the war?

Some things trump efficiency. And, again, I agree with the prevailing wisdom on the Schiavo case, but I don't claim to be omniscient.

doing the devils work.. Like the South Park and the woodland creatures (so.. if the anti-christ was going to be born.. would a fundie allow the abortion?!). They dont understnd her condition nor thefacts of the family. They basically know nothing humanity has learned in the past .. oh.. say .. 200 years... give or take 2000!

nt

The Republican Jesus series appears at the progressive satirical blog Jesus' General (http://patriotboy.blogspot.com ) and is a unique way of bringing home the utter incomprehension of the real Jesus' teachings by these self-righteous hypocrites.

and pay tribute to the necons by by paying big bucks to the corporate globalists Bushies at the cost to helping the needy.

They are being used like an acre of mules. They have been mobilized by their leaders to bring attention to the "fact" that all the state and federal judges in this country are "Godless, anti-Christians."

This is a plot by bu$h's handlers to drum up support for the appointment of more Con$ervative judges. Hide and watch.

I assume the legislature will no longer encroach on the judicial branch. But is the rest of this spectacle now over?

Especially when her body finally shuts down completely. I won't say when she dies, because the person that she was has been dead for all these years.

So many people such as these don't understand that and the people using them want to keep them ignorant and emotional to whip 'em up for their unscrupulous reasons.

she is officially dead?

I got the impression that the parents will not go to court anymore.

unless something happens (or is made to happen}that brings them out in droves again.

The political and religious "leaders" who are using them won't want to let go of this spectacle opportunity easily.
I don't think they care if the parents don't go to court anymore. This is their "cause" to show how "godless" they say America has become.
I don't think the religious and or political leaders involved in this give a fig about Terri or her parents.

make the connection with decisions made to deprive American soldiers and Iraqis of their right to life. Bravo. Expose these hypocrites for the world.

the protesters? (I don't have cable, but from what I have read here, protesters have been highly covered during this event. I have regular television, but haven't turned in on in weeks, so don't know how they've covered it.)

If cable television is no longer making a spectacle of these protesters, I would expect them to fade away. What is cable news showing today?

I'm going on what I've read here and also from what these sorts of fundie blindly following the "leaders" demonstrations have been in the past.

(AFP) - Protesters opposed to allowing a brain-damaged woman die challenged police and blocked entry to a Florida hospice after Terri Schiavo's parents asked the opponents to go home. More than 35 protesters were arrested this week attempting to deliver water to Schiavo, as a dozen persons in wheelchairs blocked entry to the hospice, shouting slogans through megaphones. Abandoning a legal battle to keep brain-damaged Schiavo alive, relatives withdrew from public view on Easter. Abandoning a legal battle to keep brain-damaged Schiavo alive, relatives withdrew from public view on Easter.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Assisted_Suicide

mr schindler has told them all to go home.

I sincerely hope that at least some people will have peace now. I hope I will. This topic has pretty much ended my ability to have calm discussions with anyone (or discussions at all, really) for about a week. People just don't want to hear about it. Any of it.

She isn't the only patient there. These people have no respect for the other people who are there...unable to sleep because someone is outside chanting to put a feeding tube back in her.

It is very sad for other hospice patients and their families. The fact that Terry is at a hospice was fairly telling for me. She is not at a rehab center or another facility or at home.

this circus, having a beer. I'm sure he would appreciate the
drooling lunacy of it better than anyone.

I can only imagine what the Good Doctor would have written about the freak show.

"Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".- HST

Something of that order, I imagine.

:shrug:

peace...what the protesters are offering terry schiavo and any other dying patient in that hospice is anything but peace. they are so inconsiderate. i caught a glimpse of that randall terry on t.v. just a short while ago and wow! doesn't he look and sound like some deluded troublemaker!?

I have despised that little weasel since the '80s when he was with Operation Rescue.

they threaten to kill people working in, or going to, abortion clinics?

Once this is over, what will replace it? Michael Jackson? Evil Deadly Petting Zoos?

since the prosecution side is looking weaker by the day. Since Trump offered MJ a job in Vegas, MSM are toning down the attacks. It's comical watching the sudden change in approach. They are running out of 'bread and circus events' for the morons. Expect more royal bull leading up to the wedding. Maybe it's time for Gannon.

before they touch Gannon.

with the revelation that Terri's father pulled the plug on his mother! Now I hear that Terri's parent's are fussing over Michael's decision to cremate her.

:headbang:
rocknation

Merlin the DU'er posted his Letter to the Editor, written to The New York Times, excerpted here:

The law should permit continued life support for Ms. Shiavo so long as the cost is covered by private funds.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1343587
(post 33)

It is a very good idea!

In fact, seeing as 'private funds' and 'private accounts' are both synchronitiously in the news these days, I'd like to expand just a touch on my learned colleague's idea:

Let's have personal, individual and involuntary Social Security accounts which would be invested in the stock markets by Compassionate Altruistic - Certain Aristocrat's (CA-CA's) that can be earmarked NOT for themselves but completely and solely for:

1) Accounts to keep poor Terri Schiavo "alive" for another 15-30 or more years (here I just have to insert my incredulity in regards to the parental contention that Ms. Schiavo 'with therapy, can yet be taught to swallow', noting that this hasn't YET been attempted IN AND THROUGHOUT HER FIFTEEN COMATOSE YEARS?!!), --and--

2) Accounts to be used solely for financial assistance in similar (although non-Schiavo) cases -- those in long-term comas who are denied sufficient financial assistance to give them a quality level of care, and 'life', which is the birthright of each and every American.

The requisites for these cases:
-- They would NOT receive one iota of attention, public or privately, media or otherwise,
-- Nor would the donor's names be divulged seeing as the rewards of charity is the charity itself,
-- Each case remains unexploitable for a Political Party, and
-- The patient's continued health care is disallowed via Medicare due to the billions slashed from said program! This program of health care which is supposed to offer succor towards our weak, elderly and poor fellow citizens!
-- Equal Opportunity

I see MSM is now discussing Delay's father and the DNR.