Timeline - Part 3

February - April 2015 

  • Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s moves toward a 2016 run for president rekindle interest in his handling of the Schiavo case.
    • South Florida political analyst Michael Putney’s Miami Herald Op-Ed article, February 3
    • Michael Schiavo’s letter to the editor in response to Putney’s article,  February 9
    • Wall Street Journal article, February 18  
    • Bloomberg Politics article, March 6
    • Wall Street Journal article, March 29  

June 2015 

  • Now an official presidential candidate, “Jeb Bush Reminds Conservatives That He ‘Stood’ With Terri Schiavo”
    • NBC News report article, June 19

January 2016 

  • In a Bush campaign advertisement, a narrator says, “He’s a man of deep faith who fought time and again for the right to life.” The ad includes a photo of Ms Schiavo, prompting Ms. Schiavo’s widower to criticize Bush and his super-PAC for using “my wife’s tragedy for his crude political gain.”
    • MSNBC report, January 26
    • Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm column, January 27 

November 2017

  • George Felos, one of Michael Schiavo's attorneys, in a letter to The Florida Bar News extolling mindfulness for lawyers, writes, "As the lead attorney in the Terri Schiavo case, I experienced years of bone-crushing stress and can attest to the benefits of meditation practice in dealing with that stress."

March 2024 -

  • Bobby Schindler, Ms. Schiavo's brother, files a motion to unseal guardianship records in the case. Michael Schiavo, her husband, opposes the motion. Judge Sherwood Coleman, A Pinellas County probate judge, denies the motion, writing, "Movants failed to establish that the ends of justice require their post-judgement intervention in this matter that concluded nearly 20 years ago. Movants seek to intervene for the sole purpose of then requesting to unseal records in this case." That ruling is reportedly being appealed.
    • Motion to unseal guardianship records filing, March 28, 2024
    • Motion to intervene filing, March 28, 2024
    • Amended response and objection to motion to intervene filing, October 3, 2024
    • Movant Bobby Schindler's response to Michael Schiavo's amended request to produce filing, October 11, 2024
    • Order denying motion to intervnene and denying as moot motions to unseal guardianship records filing, February 11, 2025

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