Schiavo Documents

Much of the television commentary in the Schiavo matter has failed to delve

very deeply into the facts of the case, or at least the differing versions

of the story that are available. But there are three documents that might

be worth reading for people interested in the case. The first is the report

of Jay Wolfson, who was the short-lived Guardian Ad Litem appointed after

the passage of Terri’s Law in 2003. The second

is the Schindler family’s March 16 appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

And the third is the Supreme Court’s ruling, and in particular Justice

Scalia’s opinion, in the 1990 case Cruzan v. Director, MDH, also available at Findlaw.com,

which dealt with the issues involved in the Nancy Cruzan case.