Due to a new law in may, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, file a lawsuit against the two companies and the estate of Michael Jackson to administer, reports Rolling Stone. The two are accused Jackson of child sexual abuse.
The law as at 1 January in California, the effect has been, and allows victims of child sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit against a third party, which is linked to the alleged misuse, abuse, or knew or ought to have known that the abuse took place and did not take reasonable steps to retaliate.
In 2017, in the european court of justice in the California court ruling on the charge of Robson and Safechuck in them, MJJ Productions, Inc. and MJJ Ventures, Inc. not be able to sue, because neither of the two companies to be held liable and could be held liable for the alleged actions of the body. That’s what makes the new law, it is now possible to.
The attorney for Robson, and Safechuck, he tells Rolling Stone: “We are very pleased with this new law, and the recognition that victims of child sexual abuse in this way you will get.”
Robson testified that, in 1993, and in 2005, it is still up for Jackson and denied any abuse. In 2013, he stepped up to the judge to have the singer perform to complain. The complaint was not dismissed because of his previous experience. In 2014, stepped Safechuck to the court, but his case was later dismissed. In the HBO documentary Life Neverland, they talked at length about the alleged abuse.
‘Absurd is that the workers are responsible, to be held
In a statement shared with the Rolling Stone magazine and repeated by Howard Weitzman, the lawyer for the estate of Jackson’s control, and that the heirs themselves have always been exempt from legal proceedings. The new decision is concerned, he said: “The decision of the court cases against the companies of the Michael Jackson’s new lease on life. In these cases, it is to be absurd enough to claim that the employees of the Jackson’s in any way responsible for the sexual abuse that never took place”.
in case the procedure will have to be taken, it is not yet clear.
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