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Recent lawsuit, August 30, 2003 ---

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TAMPA DIVISION
Civil Action No.: 8:03-CV-1860-T-26-TGW
ROBERT SCHINDLER and MARY
SCHINDLER, as parents
and next friends of Theresa Marie
Schindler Schiavo, an
incompetent ward ...
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VERIFIED AMENDED COMPLAINT
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FACTS COMMON TO ALL COUNTS
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23. At the trial of the medical malpractice suit, defendant Schiavo swore that he would use any recovery of pecuniary damages to take care of Terri for the remainder of her life. He testified that he was going to become a nurse and devote his whole life to taking care of her. He presented a detailed rehabilitation plan to the jury, a plan devised by a rehabilitation specialist.

Previous lawsuit of September 22, 2002 :

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TAMPA DIVISION
Civil Action No.: 8:03-CV-1860-T-26-TGW

THERESA MARIE SCHINDLER
SCHIAVO, Incapacitated, by her
Parents and Next Friends, ROBERT
and MARY SCHINDLER,
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20. In January, 2000, the Petition was tried to Hon. George W. Greer. No attorney, no guardian ad litem, or any other independent voice represented Terri at this trial. At this trial, Schiavo remembered, for the first time, that Terri had told him sometime during the 1980s that she would not want to survive on "anything artificial."