Monday, March 21, 2005

Clinton Nominee to Consider Appeal

Federal Judge Reviews Schiavo Case

Monday, March 21, 2005

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A federal judge is reviewing whether to impose an emergency injunction to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and has called a 3 p.m. EST hearing into the matter.

U.S. District Judge James Whittemore, who was nominated to the court in 1999 by former President Clinton, is considering an appeal filed Monday by Schiavo's parents. The move follows an unprecedented act by Congress and President Bush to step into the case of Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged Florida woman.

An attorney for her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, arrived at federal district court in Tampa and filed a request for an emergency injunction to keep their daughter fed.

When the attorney, David Gibbs III, was asked if he had any indication when the judge would rule on the request, he said: "I have no way to know, just that it's in the hands of the court."

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