MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols have renewed their claims that the City of Memphis has launched a smear campaign against them. The allegations surfaced in a Sunday court filing in the family's $550 million lawsuit against the city. Their lawyers accused the city of trying to "poison the jury pool" by putting "salacious" and "false" stories in a motion filed Friday, which were later reported by some local news outlets. This comes just months before the case is set to go to trial. According to the motion filed by the family against the City of Memphis, the filing sets out "tantalizing claims, which taken out of context and presented without the transcripts to provide the full facts, invite the public to assume improper motives and low character of Mr. Nichols, his mother, the mother of Mr. Nichols’ child," and the family's council. Trial date set for Tyre Nichols family’s $550M lawsuit against Memphis The motion seeks the following actions: 1.) Asks that the court seal information regarding Nichols' child and his child's mother. 2.) Asks that the court enter an order admonishing the City and its attorneys for filing the motion in the manner that they did, and warn them against making similar filings in the future. 3.) Asks that the court give the family permission to "cure the prejudice caused by the City's motion" at the jury selection stage. If the "salacious" details stated in the City's motion are not introduced to the public record or deemed admissible for trial, the family requests the ability to submit a questionnaire to potential jurors which will determine if any of them know of the information in the City's motion. If a potential juror shows that they are aware of the information, the family should have the right to strike the juror. As stated in the motion, "None of this information, it bears repeating, is relevant to the claims and defenses in this case. It is, rather, information that the City gathered using the Court’s subpoena power, and has now published via the City’s Motion to generate negative connotations about the personal lives of an American family that has been thrust into public life by the horrific acts of the City’s own employees." The trial date for the family's lawsuit against the city is set for January 27, 2025, which is exactly two years from the date the city released the video of Nichols’ beating. According to the Associated Press, three of the former officers charged - Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith - will stand trial on state charges on April 28. They pleaded not guilty to state charges of second-degree murder in the death of Nichols, who was punched, kicked, and hit with a police baton after he fled a traffic stop in January 2023.