The Schindlers are facing one setback after another. The dispute between them and Terri Schiavo’ husband can turn into the longest fight with courts of all levels.

Schiavo’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, turned to U.S. District Court after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected their pleas to intervene in the case. Whittemore is now one more time considering the parents’ latest plea.

Terri Schiavo had been starving for almost seven days and was showing signs of dehydration on early Friday. Doctors said she would probably die within a week or two without the tube being reconnected.

Later Thursday, Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer declined to hear Bush’s new allegations that Schiavo was neglected and that her diagnosis as being in a persistent vegetative state may be wrong.

"By clear and convincing evidence, it was determined she did not want to live under such burdensome conditions and that she would refuse such medical treatment-assistance," wrote Greer in his reply.

"We believe it’s time for that to stop as we approach this Easter weekend and that Mrs. Schiavo be able to die in peace," Michael Schiavo’s attorney George Felos said.

Schindlers’ supporters, in their turn, were were also planning an all-day prayer vigil action for Good Friday in order to persuade Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene, despite his statement Thursday that he can not transcend his gubernatorial powers.