Posted on 03/21/2005 5:25:35 AM PST by Brilliant
Courts don't issue "instant" orders. They insist on evidence, they have hearings, require briefings, etc. I'm not surprised it wasn't done instantly, particularly since "instantly" was in the middle of the night.
On the other hand, I'd be surprised if any relief is granted. It seems like it would be very easy for this judge to simply rule that the bill authorizing his jurisdiction is a bill of attainder, and hence, is unconstitutional.
And yet, I'd say that a federal court has jurisdiction to hear a case relating to Terry's due process rights, even before Congress passed the law last night. So maybe we'll get lucky, and the court will use that as a basis for intervening.
The court could have issued an emergency order in the middle of the night. It happens all the time. That order could only be in effect ten days before another hearing must be held. The fact the judge let the lawyers leave the courthouse and did not rule quickly is not a good sign. I hope I'm proven wrong.
RIGHT TO DIE????
Title should be - US Federal Court Reviewing Right-To-Kill Case.
If you abstained from food and liquids for that period of time, I hope you were very healthy to begin with.
***Why would the conversation have led to the distinction between "life support" and "feeding tubes"? ***
That distinction has bothered me all along. Many of us have said that if we are truly brain dead and have absolutely no signs of life, we'd rather not be hooked up to a machine. But how many of us would want to be starved to death when we are conscious and can feel the pain?
The judge was also assigned by random computer choice according to one account.
A preliminary injuction so she won't suffer is fitting here.
It might be good that this is a Clinton judge, finding her a federal right would not be originalist. OTOH Clinton judges often rule against whatever the Republicans want. We'll see, she may "get off on a technicality". Which, sadly, is all I can see to hope for.
LAst night Wasserface said that he had spent all his own "loss of consortium" money won in the malpractise. I suspect that most of the money allocated for her care and therapy was spent on legal fees to kill her. There is not likely much left over and he could stand to receive the remiander at her death. The longer she lives, the more he loses.
She wasn't healthy. She had lost more than a hundred pounds very quickly and had anorexia and bulimia. As is common in people with eating disorders, she had a dangerously low potassium level. People with eating disorders like that do have heart attacks.
LAst night Wasserface said that he [Michael] had spent . . .
What you're talking about is a TRO or preliminary injunction. I wouldn't say it "happens all the time" but it does happen. You're still required to have some evidence, though. The papers must include a sufficient affidavit, and a bond. Without those, I don't think he could have done it without a hearing.
I fast for 5 days a couple of times every year. However, I don't do without fluid.
There might be an insurance policy....or other assets. As long as he is the husband, he would probably inherit other assets via intestacy statutes and the Parents would be cut-off from her assets. If Terri and Michael owned a home, as tenants by entireties or joint tenants....the husband would get it by operation of law when she dies. Joint brokerage accounts, IRA's, 401k....anything with a beneficiary designation would go to him. It's hard to imagine 20-somethings would have had much, but could be a factor.
Either he should allow her hydration / food while he studies the case......or he should be denied food and water while he studies the case. Something tells me that denying him food and water would focus his mind appropriately.......
Does anyone have a list of the 58 representatives who voted no?
"Does dapper dan Michael Schiavo get more money when she dies?"
I am wondering the same thing. Wonder how much life insurance he took out on her life??? BTW -- isn't his mistress in the insurance business?? This HINO is as guilty as Scott Peterson and OJ. AND if he gets his wish of Terri's cremation immediately after she dies and no autopsy, we will never know how she got into this condition, and the HINO will have destroyed all evidence against him. HE WILL GET AWAY WITH MURDER!!!
Here you go.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll090.xml
I read some of that but couldn't go on; it was making me ill. That absurd left-wing hyperbole, spawn of the Vietnam anti-war protests, has gone on to the point where no rational person takes it seriously any more.
I fast for 5 days a couple of times every year. However, I don't do without fluid.
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Exactly. As a general principle the body can do without food for a much longer period that it can without liquids.
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