BREAKING NEWS ~ State judge denies last bid for re-insertion of Schiavo feeding tube News
BREAKING NEWS ~ State judge denies last bid for re-insertion of Schiavo feeding tube

[JURIST] Florida Pinellas County circuit judge George Greer has denied the latest and perhaps last motion by the parents of Terri Schiavo to have their daughter's feeding tube re-inserted. Their motion late Friday [JURIST report] had been supported by an affidavit by one their lawyers claiming that Schiavo had tried to talk and tell her that she wanted to live.

1:43 PM ET – Read Judge Greer's order [PDF]. AP has more. The Schindlers said in a press release early Saturday afternoon that they would file an appeal in the Florida Supreme Court.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).