i 1 PANISH SHEA & BOYLE LLP BRIAN J. ;p ANISH, State Bar No. 116060 2 [email protected] KEVIN R. BOYLE, State Bar No. 192718 3 [email protected] ROBERT S. GLASSMAN, State Bar No. 269816 4 [email protected] 11111 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 700 5 Los Angeles, California 90025 MAR 252013 Telephone: 310.477.1700 ;:'7' /i'~"" ''tt: OfJ'iur/CItlk 6 Facsimile: 310.477.1699 0, !< ~ o.,lIIY " .. '... anctta oa 7 Attorneys for Plaintiffs

8 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

9 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CENTRAL DISTRICT 10

11 KATHERINE JACKSON, individually and as Case No. BC445597 the Guardian ad Litem of MICHAEL JOSEPH Assigned/or All Purposes to Hon. Yvette M 12 JACKSON, JR., PARIS-MICHAEL Palazuelos, Department 28 KATHERINE JACKSON, and PRINCE 13 II, APPROVED STATEMENT OF THE CASE 14 Plaintiffs,

v. Complaint Filed: September 15, 2010 Trial Date: April 2, 2013 16 AEG LIVE LLC; et aI.,

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19 Plaintiffs hereby submit this updated and approved Statement of the Case in accordance 20 with the Court's order at the March 21, 2013 Final Status Conference. 21

22 This is a wrongful death lawsuit for the broUght by his mother,

23 Katherine Jackson, and his three minor children, known as Prince, Paris, and Blanket Jackson

24 against the concert promoters and producers of Jackson's This Is It Tour, AEG Live, LLC, AEG 25 Live Productions, LLC, Brandon Phillips and Paul Gongaware.

26 Katherine Jackson and Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson are the plaintiffs. AEG Live, 27 LLC, AEG Live Productions, LLC, Brandon Phillips and Paul Gongaware are the defendants.

28 Plaintiffs allege that the defendants are liable for the death of Michael Jackson because

APPROVED STATEMENT OF THE CASE 1 they negligently hired, retained or supervised , a doctor who administered a fatal

2 dose of the anesthetic drug propofol to Michael Jackson on June 25,2009. The plaintiffs seek

3 economic and noneconomic damages from the defendants.

4 Defendants deny that they hired Dr. Murray or that they were negligent, and dispute the

5 nature and extent of plaintiffs' damages.

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7 Respectfully submitted,

8 DATED: March 25,2013 PANISH SHEA & BOYLE LLP

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10 By: Brian Panish Kevin Boyle Robert Glassman Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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