Supreme Court to rule on Schiavo

[janx]

Few experts expect Gov. Bush to win a federal appeal to keep a brain-damaged woman alive

The long legal saga pitting the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman against her husband may be winding down -- if, as widely expected, the U.S. Supreme Court refuses this week to consider an appeal filed by Gov. Jeb Bush.

It is risky to predict what the high court will decide Friday, when the justices are scheduled to accept or reject the governor's appeal in the case involving Terri Schiavo. No one knows what they will do, only that they could release some decision the following Monday.

But a number of legal scholars say there is little chance the high court will choose to review the Florida Supreme Court decision that struck down what is known as "Terri's Law" for encroaching on the role reserved for judges.

That's because, observers say, there are no federal issues at stake, giving the state Supreme Court the last word on the constitutionality of the statute that empowered the governor to order the reinsertion of the feeding tube sustaining Terri Schiavo six days after it was removed by court order last October.

More at link:


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-locschiavo16011605jan16,0,2511161.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[candy331]

1. They will take the case if Dubya tell them to for his litttle brother Jeb

n/t

[janx]

2. Weird! I found an article by someone named Jon B. Eisenberg

quoted in the SP Times forum, but there's no link. I have searched and search for it and cannot find the source. Here it is as posted in that forum:

From “Follow the Money” by Jon B. Eisenberg

Jon B. Eisenberg is an attorney who practices in Oakland, California and is an adjunct professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law. His specialty is civil appeals, on which he publishes a widely-used California treatise. His work mostly involves commercial and liability disputes, but his occasional forays into pro bono work lead him to cases like Terri Schiavo litigation, where he filed a amicus curiae brief in the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of 55 bioethicists and a disability rights organization opposing Governor Bush.

“Here are just a few examples: Pat Anderson works with the Alliance Defense Fund, which received $142,000 from Philanthropy Roundtable members that include the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation and the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation. Wesley Smith works with the Discovery Institute, which received $175,000 from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation. Diane Coleman’s “friend of the court” brief is signed by the World Institute on Disability and the National Organization on Disability, which are funded by the Scaife Family Foundations, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, and the JM Foundation.

The other “friend of the court” brief supporting Governor Bush was filed by the Family Research Council, which was formerly headed by Bush lawyer Kenneth Connor and which received $215,000 from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation. Rita Marker’s organization, the International Task Force on Euthanasia, received $110,390 from the Randolph Foundation, an affiliate of the Smith Richardson family. Bush lawyer Robert Destro has tries to the Council on Economic and Policy Education, which is funded by the Randolph and JM Foundations.

The two new Schindler lawyers, Deborah Berliner and Brett Wood, are affiliated with Judicial Watch, Inc., which received $7,069,500 from the Scaife and DeVos Foundations.
And in the thick of this is Governor Jeb Bush, a former director of the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a creation of Joseph Coors and one of the most prominent member of the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Heritage Foundation has been funded to the tune of $47 million by, among others – you guessed it – the Bradley, Scaife, DeVos and JM Foundations.”

Forum link:
http://forums.sptimes.com/Forums/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=15&t=012734

But NO link to origin of article!

[Orsino]

3. Cognitive dissonance

No one can expect a Bush to win without being fully committed. In this case, the "sanctity of life" conflicts with the right of men to dispose of inconvenient spouses. How many wealthy white male contributors are really gonna get behind that?

[janx]

5. Jebby wants to keep all of the right wingnuts happy--

you know, those people who believe that a woman's body is not her own.

[seriousstan]

4. This woman is viable and should e given the chance to live.

What is the argument otherwise?

[Greybnk48]

6. She is in a Persistent vegetative state PVS

not a coma. She will never recover. She flinches and grimaces but is not aware of her surroundings. She is alive biologically, but biographically, Terry Schiavo is dead. To keep her in this state--to feed and water her like a plant is a revolting use of medical technology. Google Karen Ann Quinlan--very sad.

[kostya]

7. Well said. Thank you. eom

[Catfight]

8. But starving her to death isn't? Isn't there an answer here that

isn't so callous as to starve a person to death? We wouldn't do that to an animal let alone a human. I know she doesn't know hunger, I understand all of that, but the fact that we as humans must starve another human to get her to die seems rather barbaric in the act.

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