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Schiavo parents get federal court appeal

Parents Get Federal Appeal

Atlanta, GA -- Based on a technicality, lawyers for the parents of brain-damaged Terri Shiavo filed an emergency petition with a U.S. federal court, CNN said Wednesday.

The papers were filed late Tuesday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, claiming federal judges who rejected the previous efforts to have Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted violated a Supreme Court precedent that requires them to consider the full record, not just the procedural history from the state court.

The court accepted the filing, but did not immediately indicate if it would consider the appeal, the report said.

Schiavo has been without the feeding tube since March 18, and doctors expect her to die at a central Florida hospice within days.

Schiavo's parents are fighting to have their daughter's feeding tube restored, and the latest petition refutes their son-in-law Michael Schiavo's testimony that Terri had said she would want to refuse life support if she were in a vegetative state.


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Posted by Editor at March 30, 2005 07:40 AM