Carrie Fisher faces trial in wrongful death lawsuit

Actress Carrie Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, has failed in her attempt to escape a legal case over the fatal heroin overdose of a 21-year-old woman, who lived in her guesthouse two months before her death.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Laura A Matz, has dismissed an appeal made by Fisher to be removed from a wrongful death lawsuit, which centers around the death of Amy Breliant in 2010, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The ruling says, that Fisher will remain a defendant in the case alongside a physician, Stephen Marmer M D and Warren Boyd, who were overseeing the rehab network that Breliant was under the care of when she died.

"Fisher has failed to meet her burden to establish that she cannot be found responsible, as a matter of law, for the conduct of Boyd, a joint venturer," reads Matz's order.
According to the original complaint, filed in 2013, Gianna Breliant, mother of Amy, claimed that the actress had liability in the case because she provided her guest house to her daughter in return for a share of Boyd's profit, implicating Fisher was engaged in a business relationship with him.
Fisher, however, refused to comment on the issue but sympathized with the family.
"I feel great compassion for any parent's loss of their child in an untimely death. I have a daughter. To lose a child is an unimaginable tragedy and the grief must be devastating. Unfortunately, I am not able to talk about the details of this case because it is ongoing," she said.