[bjs1779]

I'm siding with T'wit on this one. Michael asked the court's permission because it wasn't legal to do it when he first sought to remove it. Until then, the court was not involved. Michael is the one who initiated the legal proceedings. At least this is how I look at it.

I guess we are just discussing a technicality over the word 'lawsuit'. What would the correct term be in this case, Petition the Court? If lawsuit means to sue someone, who did he sue, initially?

[Ohioan from Florida]

Oh, I don't know any of the legal jargon. All I'm saying is that in my eyes, Michael was the one who got things started with the court getting involved. I thought that's what was being discussed. It's very possible I misunderstood. I've heard lots of complaints that the Schindlers were the ones who got the court involved in this, but that's not true at all. At least not IMHO.

[T'wit]

"Petition" is a proper word for this. We're all on the same page here. The only question is who called Big Brother into the case. Of course it was Michael Schiavo; not Jeb, not Dubya, not Tom Delay.