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>http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031103_2165.html > >'Terri's Law' Spouse Wants In-Laws Out >Husband in Florida Right-To-Die Case Moves to Exclude >Wife's Parents in Trial Over 'Terri's Law' > >The Associated Press > >CLEARWATER, Fla. Nov. 3 — Attorneys for the husband of >a severely brain-damaged woman filed court papers >Monday seeking to have her parents excluded from a >legal battle over a hastily passed state law that >empowered Gov. Jeb Bush to keep her alive. >Lawyers for Michael Schiavo contend that the law >violates the state constitution, infringing on his >wife Terri Schiavo's right to privacy and the >constitution's separation of power provisions. > >The special law passed by the state legislature last >month allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to order that Terri >Schiavo's feeding tube which has kept her alive for >more than a decade be reinserted six days after her >husband ordered it removed. > >Michael Schiavo has been battling in court for years >to carry out what he says is his wife's wish not to be >kept alive artificially. > >His wife's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have >fought him, saying their daughter had no such wishes >and is not in a permanent vegetative state, as a >probate judge has declared. They say she is responsive >and could improve with therapy. > >The Schindlers have filed documents seeking a judge's >permission to become parties in their son-in-law's >challenge to the new law. > >Michael Schiavo's attorneys contend that while the >Schindlers arguably had a stake in the battle, the >legal challenge of what has been dubbed "Terri's Law" >is between her husband and the governor's attorneys. > >Doctors and a judge have ruled that Terri Schiavo is >in a persistent vegetative state with no hope for >recovery. She suffered severe brain damage in 1990 >when her heart stopped beating cutting off oxygen to >her brain because of a chemical imbalance. > >Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird would have to >grant permission for the Schindlers to enter the >lawsuit. > >photo credit and caption: Terri Schiavo is shown in >this Aug. 11, 2001 video photographed and released by >her parents. Attorneys for the husband of Schiavo >filed court papers Monday, Nov.3, 2003 seeking to have >her parents excluded from a legal battle over a >hastily passed state law that empowered Gov. Jeb Bush >to keep her alive. (AP Photo/Schindler Family Video)
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