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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush and the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman won appellate court rulings in their favor Friday on two legal issues in their quest to keep the woman alive against her husband's wishes. Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird did not follow judicial rules when he denied Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, the ability to intervene in the constitutional challenge to a law aimed at keeping the 40-year-old woman alive. The appeals court also ruled that Bush's attorneys will be allowed to question...

This was given more than a dozen chances by the Florida court system...... This has been given ZERO chances by the Florida courts........

Appeals court declines to remove judge in Schiavo case The Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. An appeals court rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's assertion that the circuit judge overseeing the case of a severely brain-damaged woman is biased and refused Wednesday to remove him. The 2nd District Court of Appeal refused to bar Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird from hearing arguments regarding the constitutionality of a new law enacted to reinsert the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive after her husband had it removed. Bush's attorney, Kenneth L. Connor, argued that Baird had already made up his mind, citing statements the...

People already have the right to refuse unwanted treatment, and suicide is not illegal. What we oppose is a public policy that singles out individuals for legalized killing based on their health status. This violates the Americans With Disabilities Act, and denies us equal protection of the laws. Disability opposition to this ultimate form of discrimination has been ignored by most media and courts, but countless people with disabilities have already died before their time. —Not Dead Yet: The Resistance, a disability rights organization, Forest Park, Illinois, October 28, 2003 In 1920, a prominent German lawyer, Karl Binding, and a...

The Associated Press Published: Nov 21, 2003 CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush asked an appeals court Friday to disqualify a judge in the constitutional battle over a law that allowed doctors to reinsert a brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. The appeal came a day after Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird refused to step aside as requested by Bush. The governor wants Baird off the case after he said at a hearing last week that the hastily passed law intruded on Terri Schiavo's privacy rights and was "presumptively unconstitutional." Schiavo's husband Michael has offered those arguments and is suing...