{"id":7946,"date":"2004-02-13T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/day_in_court_1.html"},"modified":"2004-02-13T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T12:51:39","slug":"day_in_court_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/day_in_court_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Day in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/ny-schiavo0213,0,575320.story?coll=ny-top-headlines\">Schindler family wins appeal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGov. Jeb Bush and the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman won appellate court rulings in their favor Friday on two legal issues in their quest to keep the woman alive against her husband&#8217;s wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. 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