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Posted on 03/20/2005 10:27:03 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida
Continuation of Terri Schiavo daily March threads. Due to overwhelming participation we reached over 5000 posts in three days time!
Nic it's from 3/18
Thanks eagle!!!
Guess I need more coffee and some brakes!!
Don't worry when I first found that hours ago I thought it was the one, so I scrolled to the date and was happy to see March 18, plus the judge is whittemore that is doing the current injunction, not Moody.
Remember the MSM is likely camped out at the Court and will know way before it gets posted on the site...
This is so frustrating. I don't feel like I can watch any TV stations to get the truth about what is going on....
Just have to trust in God.
oops. sorry for the double post...
So is Slick Willy.
As soon as I read your post with the date, the lightbulb came on and I remembered reading that the old case pdf was on there.
I'll slow down.
Polls are easily skewed so I don't really pay a lot of attention to them.
Just got this in from Cheryl Ford:
Judge receives Schiavo lawsuit
BY PHIL LONG
plong@herald.com
TAMPA - Capping a hectic night of action by the Republican Congress and President George Bush to pave the way, a new federal lawsuit designed to keep Terri Schiavo alive landed early this morning in the hands of a federal judge appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton.
U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore, whom Clinton appointed in 1999, received the lawsuit filed by Terri Schiavo's parents via email about 4:30 a.m. -- about a half-hour after he was assigned the case via random computer selection.
Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo, 41, whom doctors say is in a ''persistent vegetative state,'' lies in a hospice center 25 miles away, where on Friday, personnel removed her feeding tube.
The suit, made possible after Congress enacted a special law giving Schiavo's parents the right to bring federal litigation, seeks an emergency order to require that the tube be reinserted.
Whittemore is expected to rule on that request first, perhaps as early as this morning, while lawyers thrash out the rest of the federal lawsuit.
Schiavo is at the heart of a seven-year-long legal battle. She collapsed of heart failure brought on by a chemical imbalance in 1990 and never regained consciousness. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, says she would never want to live as she is and has asked repeatedly for permission to disconnect her feeding tube. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, say they think she is responsive and want to care for her.
In the resulting legal battle, state courts had essentially sided with Michael Schiavo. Previous attempts by the Schindlers to try the case in federal court had failed because of jurisdictional questions.
In a major victory for her the Schindlers, just after 12:30 a.m. Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Senate bill specifically creating federal jursdiction for the brain-damaged woman's case.
At 1:11 a.m. President George Bush, who cut short a visit to Texas and returned to the White House just to speed the process along, signed the bill into law.
By 2:30 a.m. David Gibbs, an attorney for the Schindlers, was standing on the chilly, windswept front porch of the Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse in Tampa, with a lawsuit in hand.
It took another 30 minutes for court personnel to get to the building and open the clerk's office to file the suit.
In essence, the lawsuit seeks an injunction ordering that Schiavo's feeding tube be put back in, and barring anyone from removing it without federal court orders.
The federal civil rights suit alleges that she has been deprived fundamental rights like food and water, an independent lawyer and her right to practice her religion.
The law allows a ''from the beginning review,'' Gibbs said, of everything that has led up to the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
''It's been a great night, a long night,'' Gibbs said.
Waiting for a decision is the hard part, he said. ''It could be ten minutes, or it could be 10 hours,'' Gibbs said.
George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, was not immediately available for comment. Both he and Michael Schiavo have blasted Congress for considering the law, saying that it is an unwarranted intrusion into a private matter that has already been settled in state court.
Just wait til more people hear Theresa crys those polls will change. I hope ALL of the radio talk shows play it over and over...
And your point is?
Again, you have proven why I don’t watch ABC anymore. Your biased coverage regarding Terri Schiavo is appalling but not surprising. Because the truth will never be fairly reported by you or the other “networks”, you will continue to lose viewership.
Try, for once, to listen to what the Schindlers are saying before slapping a label on them and writing them off as wackos and just report what they say instead of throwing such bias in your headlines and reporting. Believe me, you’ll feel good about yourselves if you just return to what you are supposed to be doing – reporting – not editorializing.
Me either.
They don't have to put the tube back in right now. An IV can be started for fluids.
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
On Monday, March 21, 2005, the President signed into law: S. 686, which provides that the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render judgment on a suit or claim by or on behalf of Theresa Marie Schiavo for the alleged violation of any right of Theresa Marie Schiavo under the Constitution or laws of the United States relating to the withholding or withdrawal of food, fluids, or medical treatment necessary to sustain her life; provides that any parent of Theresa Marie Schiavo shall have standing to bring a suit under the Act; and establishes other procedures for a suit under the Act.
LORD thank you for the blessings that we have received overnight. Strengthen your servant David ...Lord continue to bless him with wisdom and energy as he fights for Terri. We ask the Holy Spirit to bring conviction to the hearts of those who seek to destroy the woman you created. Father please strengthen Terri and her family...put a hedge of protection around them and all those who value life and are trying to help Terri. May the plans of the wicked be reduced to confusion just as those who sought to build the tower of Babel. Father we plead with you, beseeching as did Paul, that a righteous judge will see truth and deliver it! Lead us in how to pray, hear us, if there is one prayer that will cause you to bring deliverance to Terri may it be prayed and answered. Thank you for the privilege of fellowship with you and may this week bring new life for Terri, just as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. May true justice be done.
Thank you Lord and I ask it in your name.
Amen
I would like to pose you a question with a very brief prediction:
I am oh... somewhere about 75% sure that CNN will modify its transcript, attempting to listen on our behalf.
When that happens, people are saying that there will be, I can only call them... retractions of the possible confession.
Would you, I ask, trust such a thing? Does CNN have enough integrity to deserve our respect? Or would it not be better to hear the opinions of others, such as Rush, AND Boortz? Better yet, to hear it ourselves without subjecting ourselves to subscribing to CNN-- such as quick audio clips?
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