[rodguy911]

Another great post. Can someone beside Jeb order or request the DCF to go in and save Terri, or how does that work. And can Greer stop the DCF from assisting Terri?.

[Defiant]

Thanks. I think the person in charge of the DCF could certainly order the agency in to do its duty, without getting clearance from Jeb. They do that every day, and in Jeb's first press conference, he indicated that the decision was not up to him, implying that the head of the department would make the decision.

I think Greer exceeded his authority to tell the DCF it could not act to protect this citizen when the DCF was going to act on new facts not presented in court or decided by the court. He was saying in essence that no matter what happens, or what you think the new facts are, even if she sang Bette Midler tunes in her sleep last night, he is going to continue to order her to be starved to death. And that's not his job; his job is to rule on the Schiavo suit that was filed years earlier and tried years earlier. That judgment gave him the right to issue orders in accord with the judgment; it did not give him the right to order that new facts and different laws and different parties (the DCF) could not supersede the judgment.