An appeals court in the US has upheld a lower court ruling that said a dispute between broadcaster HBO and the Michael Jackson estate should go to arbitration.
It was the estate that sought to enforce an arbitration clause in a 1992 contract between the two parties as a dispute over the ‘Leaving Neverland’ documentary went through the motions.The estate sued HBO in February last year over the latter’s decision to air the headline-grabbing documentary that put the spotlight back on allegations of child abuse made against the Jackson by Wade Robson and James Safechuck.Legal reps for the estate claimed that, by broadcasting ‘Leaving Neverland’, HBO was in breach of a contract the media firm entered into with Jackson all the way back in 1992.
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