Katherine Jackson’s New Trial Request Denied by California Court of Appeals



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Katherine Jackson, the matriarch of the talented Jackson Family, has lost her appeal request against AEG Live to prove that they were in deed liable in the tragic death of global superstar Michael Jackson.

Katherine Jackson had petitioned the court to revisit the 2013 wrongful death lawsuit where the jury unanimously found that AEG Live was not responsible for superstar Michael Jackson‘s death in 2009. Unfortunately for Jackson and her three grandchildren, Prince, Paris, and Blanket who had originally sued concert promoter AEG Live, in 2010, California’s 2nd District Court of Appeals denied the appeal request.

ABC News reports that the court said in its decision that they were in agreement “with the trial court that Dr. [Conrad] Murray was an independent contractor as a matter of law.” The news outlet also reports additional statements from the decision:

“The evidence fails to establish a triable issue that AEG had the right to control the manner and means of Dr. Murray’s treatment of Michael. AEG never instructed Dr. Murray on how to treat Michael, and no evidence was presented that AEG had the right to control Dr. Murray’s treatment of Michael.”

New York Daily News says the ruling noted the concert promoter had “hired Murray at Jackson’s insistence” and that the lower court’s “jurors seemed to understand the case and did not appear confused by jury instructions or the verdict form.”

At this time, no official statement responding to the court’s decision had been released from Jackson’s attorneys or from Jackson herself.




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