I did a bit of searching, and after shifting through all the propaganda and nonsense, I found this excellent website: http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html. This gives an unbiased, very detailed account of exactly what happened, including a very detailed time-table. I highly suggest anyone interested in this topic click on the link and read through it.

Basically, judges in this case(from the lower court and Florida court of appeals) heard testimony from both sides, heard expert witnesses from both sides, and testimony from Michael and her parents. Both the federal court and the Florida court of appeals ruled time and again that Terri was in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery, and that she would have wished to have the feeding tube removed. Florida state law mandates that the judges err on the side of life, and if both courts see clearly that Terri has not chance of recovery and would wish to have the feeding tube removed, along with both state and federal Supreme Court's dismissing the Schindler's petitions, who am I to argue?