CLEARWATER - A husband battling Gov. Jeb Bush over whether a feeding tube should be removed from his severely brain-damaged wife again will try to block state attorneys from questioning potential witnesses.
An attorney for Bush said Monday he will make a second attempt to take depositions from seven witnesses, including Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, and the woman with whom he lives.
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, said he again will ask a judge to block the depositions, despite a 2nd District Court of Appeal ruling this month that they could be taken.
Schiavo is suing the governor over the hastily passed "Terri's Law," which let Bush intervene in the six-year legal battle over the fate of his wife, who has been in what some doctors call a persistent vegetative state since 1990.
In October, doctors had removed the feeding tube keeping her alive before the Legislature gave the governor the power to order the tube reinserted.
Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, are fighting their son-in-law, contending that her condition could improve with therapy. They also question whether she had any such end-of-life wishes.
Bush's attorney, Ken Connor, said in court documents that besides Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze, the woman with whom he lives, depositions will be sought from Scott and Joan Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother and sister-in-law, and three doctors who have examined Terri Schiavo.
All but Centonze have testified in previous court proceedings in the case.
