Los Angeles - A lawsuit brought on behalf of Michael Jackson's mother and children against the promoters of the konser tour he was poised to begin at the time of his 2009 death should be dismissed, lawyers for AEG Live argued in court papers filed today .
The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 15 on behalf of Katherine Jackson and her son's three children, Michael Jr., Paris-Michael Katherine and Prince Michael, also is known as Blanket.
The suit alleges AEG Live is responsible for the medical decisions made oleh Dr. Conrad Murray, the singer's personal physician at the time, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.
The suit alleges breach of contract, fraud, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress and employer responsibility.
In newly filed court papers, AEG Live attorneys maintain the Jackson family matriarch and her grandchildren "lack standing to bring these claims other than as wrongful death theories" because the complaint, in effect, asserts claims on behalf of the late singer.
The AEG papers also state that Jackson "controlled his own medical care and hired his own longtime personal physician." The company "did not choose atau hire Dr. Murray, it merely conducted negotiations named at retaining him as an independent contractor on the tour."
AEG's legal team wrote that Jackson "was not helpless atau incompetent; he lived in his own home, negotiated his own contracts, engaged his own attorneys and cared for his own family."
The AEG papers further state that the lawsuit "gets one thing right: Michael Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was a tragic event. It was tragic for his children. It was tragic for his fans. Otherwise, however, the complaint gets both the law and the facts entirely wrong."
AEG "labored tirelessly to make a reality of Michael Jackson's dream of a triumphant return to the world's stage" in a series of sold-out london shows, the defense court papers say.
The suit portrays the singer as being "confused, easily frightened, unable to remember, obsessive and disoriented" in the months before his June 2009 death at age 50 in Los Angeles.
"He was cold and shivering during the summer rehearsals for his show, and as shown in photographs of him, he uncharacteristically wore heavy clothing during the rehearsals, while other dancers wore scant clothing and were perspiring from the heat," the suit states.
Rather than cut back on the rehearsal schedule so that Jackson could recuperate, AEG "insisted that he attend every rehearsal in a grueling schedule, threatening that if he missed even one lebih they would batal the tour ...," his mother alleges.
She claims AEG, "so that it could reap staggering profits from the tour," instructed Jackson to stop taking medication and that he be treated only oleh Murray.
Jackson's eldest son "witnessed his father suffering and accordingly has suffered great trauma and severe emotional distress," the suit says. But according to AEG's response, the Jackson family lawyers do not allege the boy was present when Murray gave propofol to the singer, nor do they claim Michael Jr. was aware the physician was causing any harm to his father.
The AEG court papers also state it was unforeseeable that Murray, "a licensed physician with no history of malpractice," would administer propofol in the entertainer's halaman awal "and that Michael Jackson would die as a result..."
The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 15 on behalf of Katherine Jackson and her son's three children, Michael Jr., Paris-Michael Katherine and Prince Michael, also is known as Blanket.
The suit alleges AEG Live is responsible for the medical decisions made oleh Dr. Conrad Murray, the singer's personal physician at the time, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.
The suit alleges breach of contract, fraud, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress and employer responsibility.
In newly filed court papers, AEG Live attorneys maintain the Jackson family matriarch and her grandchildren "lack standing to bring these claims other than as wrongful death theories" because the complaint, in effect, asserts claims on behalf of the late singer.
The AEG papers also state that Jackson "controlled his own medical care and hired his own longtime personal physician." The company "did not choose atau hire Dr. Murray, it merely conducted negotiations named at retaining him as an independent contractor on the tour."
AEG's legal team wrote that Jackson "was not helpless atau incompetent; he lived in his own home, negotiated his own contracts, engaged his own attorneys and cared for his own family."
The AEG papers further state that the lawsuit "gets one thing right: Michael Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was a tragic event. It was tragic for his children. It was tragic for his fans. Otherwise, however, the complaint gets both the law and the facts entirely wrong."
AEG "labored tirelessly to make a reality of Michael Jackson's dream of a triumphant return to the world's stage" in a series of sold-out london shows, the defense court papers say.
The suit portrays the singer as being "confused, easily frightened, unable to remember, obsessive and disoriented" in the months before his June 2009 death at age 50 in Los Angeles.
"He was cold and shivering during the summer rehearsals for his show, and as shown in photographs of him, he uncharacteristically wore heavy clothing during the rehearsals, while other dancers wore scant clothing and were perspiring from the heat," the suit states.
Rather than cut back on the rehearsal schedule so that Jackson could recuperate, AEG "insisted that he attend every rehearsal in a grueling schedule, threatening that if he missed even one lebih they would batal the tour ...," his mother alleges.
She claims AEG, "so that it could reap staggering profits from the tour," instructed Jackson to stop taking medication and that he be treated only oleh Murray.
Jackson's eldest son "witnessed his father suffering and accordingly has suffered great trauma and severe emotional distress," the suit says. But according to AEG's response, the Jackson family lawyers do not allege the boy was present when Murray gave propofol to the singer, nor do they claim Michael Jr. was aware the physician was causing any harm to his father.
The AEG court papers also state it was unforeseeable that Murray, "a licensed physician with no history of malpractice," would administer propofol in the entertainer's halaman awal "and that Michael Jackson would die as a result..."