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Litigation

Jan. 7, 2014

Judge leans toward not granting new trial in Jackson wrongful death suit

Arguments on Friday did not immediately convince Judge Yvette M. Palazuelos to abandon her tentative ruling denying a motion for a new trial in a suit over the singer's death.


By Chase Scheinbaum


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Three months after a jury declined to award damages in the wrongful death suit brought by the family of Michael Jackson, lawyers for the singer's family tried to convince a judge Friday that a flawed jury instruction should be grounds for granting them a second trial in the case.


Lawyers made their arguments in the wake of 44-page tentative ruling by Los Angeles County Superior ...

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