No judge wants to be overturned on appeal so I am sure whatever he decides he will make sure all his ducks are in a row in that opinion and that could take time. My understanding was that this was submitted de novo today. Is this judge looking at the old records? I am thinking since this is a trial court, albeit a federal district court, they are hearing a denovo case and if they rule against Terri, the appeal would then be sent to the 11th...however, Gibbs said, he was there to argue the reinsertion of the feeding tube only and not the entire case...so all that this judge is supposed to do is grant in favor of the tube back in, or not. If put back in, the civil rights case would be the denovo case for Terri and that would be a trial by Jury. If sustained, Gibbs will file in the 11th (appeal) and they could order the reinsertion of the tube and then would remand back to the trial court (tampa) to grant the denovo trial.
This judge should be dealing with emergency relief first and then he can take his sweet time with all the rest. That it's been almost 24 hours and he hasn't granted Terri any relief, isn't hard to interpret.