A wrongful death suit against the promoter of Michael Jackson's ill-fated comeback tour is set to go to trial in April, after a judge rejected a motion to dismiss the case.
Jackson's mother, Katherine, and his three children, accuse the promoter AEG Live of pressuring Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, to disregard medical procedures to ensure that the frail Jackson could attend rehearsals ahead of the planned This is It comeback tour in 2009.
Jackson died in June 2009 from a heart attack, after Murray injected him with the hospital anaesthetic Propofil as a sleep aid.
According to the CNN report, the judge ruled that the Jackson family had shown enough evidence that AEG Live employed and supervised Murray to warrant a jury trial that will begin on 2 April.
