WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The lead attorney for Bob and Mary Schindler says they apparently have exhausted their "last meaningful legal appeal" in their desperate battle to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reinserted.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday refused once again to hear an emergency appeal from the Schindlers, who are the parents of Terri Schiavo.
Their attorney, David Gibbs, received word of the high court's rejection during a news conference outside the Pinellas Park, Florida, hospice where Schiavo is receiving care.
"It appears that that will be the last meaningful legal appeal unless something comes up, Gibbs said. "Fundamentally, the decision of the Florida courts will remain unchanged and the federal courts have declined to get involved."
Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer in Clearwater, Florida, ordered the feeding tube removed March 18 at the request of Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, who says his wife wouldn't have wanted to live in her condition -- what Florida courts have deemed a "persistent vegetative state."
The parents feel otherwise and have sought to take guardianship of their daughter from her husband. Their bitter series of court battles began in 1998.
"I don't understand why Michael Schiavo at some point didn't walk away," Gibbs said.
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