Essential News from The Associated Press AAA Aug. 31, 2013 2:28 PM ET Jury hears of Jackson's requests for anesthetic AP FILE - In this Dec. 3, 1984 photo, Michael Jackson performs with his brothers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, as part of their Victory Tour concert. Attorneys for AEG Live LLC have shown jurors testimony from several doctors who treated Jackson in the 1990s and 2000s, including several who established friendships with the singer. The jury has also heard about Jackson's various ailments, which led him to believe he was disfigured, during a negligent hiring trial between the singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, and AEG Live LLC that concluded its 18th week on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. AP Photo/Doug Pizac, file FILE - In this May 28, 1997 file photo, U.S. entertainer Michael Jackson gives a little boy an autograph upon his arrival in the northern town of Bremen, where he will begin his Germany concert tour on May 31. AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File FILE- In this March 5, 2009, file photo, Michael Jackson makes an announcement about upcoming performances at the London O2 Arena. A Los Angeles jury heard from two medical professionals that Jackson requested the powerful anesthetic propofol for sleep during testimony on Aug. 28, 2013. Dr. Christine Quinn and nurse practitioner Cherilyn Lee detailed the singer's requests, separated by a decade, after being called to testify in a negligent hiring lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against concert promoter AEG Live LLC. AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson is shown at a press conference in London, announcing plans to appear at the London O2 Arena in July. AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, Dr. Allan Metzger, Michael Jackson's former physician, takes the witness stand during the Dr. Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Calif. Jurors throughout an 18-week civil trial in Los Angeles have heard about Metzger's treatments of Jackson between the early 1980s and 2009, when he served as Jackson's primary care doctor and treated a variety of ailments, in addition to serving as the singer's best man at his second wedding. Defense attorneys for AEG Live LLC, who are being sued by Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, claiming the company is liable for her son's death, have presented testimony about Jackson's relationship with many of his doctors throughout the 1990s and 2000s. AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool, File LOS ANGELES (AP) - A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead: Jackson's mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of Jackson's planned comeback concerts didn't properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a criminal jury for Jackson's June 2009 death. AEG's attorney says the case is about personal choice, namely Jackson's decision to have Murray serve as his doctor and give him doses of a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid. Millions, possibly billions, of dollars are at stake. Dr. Christine Quinn, a dental anesthesiologist, described a meeting with Jackson at a Beverly Hills hotel in which the singer asked her to give him the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep. The meeting was in 1998 or 1999, a decade before Jackson died of a propofol overdose. Quinn refused the singer's request, but continued to treat him for dental procedures. Dr. Petros Levounis, an expert paid by AEG Live, said he believed Jackson was addicted to opioid medications and exhibited signs that he was doctor shopping in the 1990s and 2000s. Cherilyn Lee, a nurse practitioner, told jurors that Jackson requested propofol from her in April 2009. Lee said she warned Jackson that it wasn't safe to use propofol in a home setting, but the singer insisted that doctors told him it was safe and he needed to get sleep to prepare for his "This Is It" shows. Outside the presence of the jury, the judge overseeing the case refused to allow lawyers for Jackson's mother to amend their lawsuit and add a negligence claim based on testimony presented during the trial. Lee break down in tears while testifying, likening Jackson's trust of doctors to her mother, who she said she warned about taking too many prescription medications and died three years ago. Charts that accompanied Levounis' testimony that showed comments by Jackson's doctors on their close relationships with the singer and behavior that he said supported his opinion that the pop star was addicted to opioid medications, had engaged in doctor shopping and was secretive about his medical care. "I told him that the sleep you get with anesthesia is not real sleep, not restful sleep," Quinn said of Jackson. "He kept saying, 'You don't understand. Doctors said it's OK,'" Lee recounted Jackson telling her when she warned him that using propofol in a home setting was dangerous. AEG Live will continue to present its case and is expected to present a final flurry of videotaped testimony from Jackson's doctors on Friday. AEG Live's lawyers will also argue that the case be dismissed on Thursday. 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