Close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark. (You’ll see a sight that’s guaranteed to stop your heart.)

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It is always nice to see justice done.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died at a hospital soon after she was moved to make room for Michael Jackson cannot continue as filed, a judge has ruled.

The family of Manuela Gomez Ruiz had sued Jackson and Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, claiming she was kept from critical care after she had a heart attack on the same day Jackson was brought in with flu-like symptoms during his 2005 child-molestation trial. Jackson was acquitted in the case.

The 73-year-old Ruiz was on life-support after a massive heart attack and was moved from a two-bed room so Jackson could occupy it by himself.

She was kept alive in an exam room using hand-pumped oxygen until she could be reconnected to a life-support machine, court papers said and claimed the woman then had another heart attack but that the crowd milling around the pop star delayed her arrival at the critical-care unit. Ruiz died later that night.

As I said, always nice to see justice done.

Pity we so seldom get the chance.

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