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To: jwalsh07

They did actually. Whittemire pushed more. It is not against the law to amend one's complaint. I know what I would have done I think on the appellate court given the extraordinary circumstances. I would have said that the pleading could be easily amended to render it likely that an injunction would issue, and given that Gibbs has the power to amend, and given further that when Gibbs finds time in his no doubt busy schedule to get around to amending the complaint, the case will be mooted by a corpse, I am going to order the feeding tube be reinstered, until the earlier of 1) Gibbs not filing an amended complaint and new motion within 5 days, or 2) Whittemire again denying such an injunction. That is what I would have done. But it could rightfully be characterized as an abuse of appellate court power. But I would have done it anyway. I would not have allowed Terri to die over a defective pleading which is curable. I just wouldn't. Period.


27 posted on 03/23/2005 4:44:06 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie

God bless ya then.


32 posted on 03/23/2005 4:48:51 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Torie
I would not have allowed Terri to die over a defective pleading which is curable. I just wouldn't.

That's what gets me, too. Have these judges lost all their humanity? It's process, process, process with these guys, while the woman starves to death.


61 posted on 03/23/2005 5:35:52 PM PST by Nick Danger (You can stick a fork in the Mullahs... they're done)
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