[JURIST] In what is expected to be the very last high court appeal by the parents of Terri Schiavo [JURIST new archive], the US Supreme Court [official website] late Wednesday rejected another petition [text, PDF] to have Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted pending a legal review. The petition against a Wednesday Eleventh Circuit ruling [JURIST report] refusing a full court rehearing of the case was received by Justice Anthony Kennedy who fowarded it to the full court. The Court declined the request in one-sentence statement. AFP has more.

In other developments Wednesday in the Schiavo case, Rev. Jesse Jackson apparently failed in a bid to persuade either Governor Jeb Bush or Florida state legislators in Tallahassee to intervene to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tubes, and in a news conference [ABC WTSP-TV Tampa video] said that it was time for the family to accept the possibility of her death. The Florida Ledger has local coverage.