An appeals court in California threw out on Friday a plead from Michael Jackson's family to strike down the decision of a jury, which found concert organizer, AEG Live, not guilty of negligence in the King of Pop's death.

The singer's mother Katherine Jackson, 84, and his three children were named complainants in the case against AEG Live.

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The court's three judges decided that Jackson's children and his mother offered not enough reason to hold another trial after their lawyers told the court last week that AEG Live should be held liable for the singer's medical treatment and that instructions to the jury lacked enough scope and were confusing.

In 2013, a Los Angeles jury found no reason to convict private firm AEG Live of wrongdoing in employing cardiologist Conrad Murray as the singer's personal doctor.  AEG is the promoter of Jackson's 50 "This Is It" series of London concerts.

AEG's no-holds-barred five-month trial involved testimonies on the private life of the much-beloved but odd pop singer and the days leading up to his death. Murray gave Jackson the surgical anesthetic drug propofol as a way to help him sleep.

With a musical career spanning five decades - from the Jackson Five 1972 hit "Ben" to 1982's "Beat It" and 1991's "Black or White" -the child star grew into a pop legend entertaining world, whose star power was often eclipsed by allegations of sexual impropriety and a eccentric lifestyle.

In 2009, an overdose of the powerful sleep-inducing drug killed Jackson, then 50, in Los Angeles. The jury that sat in the Superior Court in Los Angeles decided that Murray was qualified enough for the work he was employed for as general medical practitioner.

In 2011, a court did find Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death and he served two years of his 4-year sentence in a Los Angeles jail. 

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