Two men who claimed that Michael Jackson sexually molested them as minors now have renewed hope that their long-running case against the late singer's businesses will succeed.

James Safechuck and Wade Robson both made appearances in the hotly contested 2019 HBO film Leaving Neverland.When Jackson was five years old, Australian dancer and choreographer Robson, now 40, first met him. He later made three Michael Jackson music videos appearances.

Jackson allegedly raped him during a seven-year period, according to his lawsuit.

In his lawsuit, writer Safechuck, 45, claimed that he was nine years old when he first encountered Jackson while working on a Pepsi commercial. He said Jackson pampered him with gifts and frequent phone calls before engaging in a string of sexual assaults.

In 2013, Robson filed a lawsuit, and Safechuck followed in 2014. In 2021, the cases were closed.

The judge who dismissed the lawsuits concluded that Jackson's two firms, MJJ Productions Inc. and MJJ Ventures Inc., of which he was the sole shareholder and owner, could not be expected to operate similarly to a church or the Boy Scouts, where a child in their care could expect their protection.

However, on Wednesday, a judge for the Los Angeles appeals court stated that the matter can be reopened during a hearing before the trial.

Jonathan Steinsapir, an attorney for the Jackson estate, argued against the tentative ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeal in California.

Steinsapir contended that the court's logic 'would oblige low-level staff to approach their boss and call them paedophiles.'

According to Holly Boyer, an attorney for Robson and Safechuck, employees should be in charge of that. In the videoconference session, she informed the three judges, "We do require that employees of the entity take those steps because what we are talking about is the sexual abuse of children."

The children in question are seven and ten years old, and they are completely unprepared to defend themselves against their mentor, Michael Jackson.

Boyer continued, "The defendant's staff left the lads alone in this lion's lair. The obligation to safeguard and warn is an affirmative one.

According to Steinsapir, evidence in the untried instances indicates that the parents had no expectation of Jackson's staff serving as monitors.

He claimed that Robson's mother's deposition revealed she was unaware of the businesses' existence when she brought her seven-year-old son into the pop star's presence for the first time.

According to Steinsapir, they did not look to Michael Jackson's businesses for security against him.

When the person executing the hiring was the alleged offender, Steinsapir claimed that the lawsuit's claim and the court's potential ruling that the corporations had participated in careless hiring were ludicrous.

If someone has a tendency to commit crimes, they should not be hired. declared Steinsapir.

The Jackson estate has categorically and repeatedly disputed that he molested any of the boys and has emphasised that both Safechuck and Robson testified to authorities that they had not been mistreated during Jackson's 2005 criminal trial, in which Jackson was found not guilty.

The matter was heard by three judges on Wednesday, but no decision was reached right away. It "seems to me that these corporations were in an excellent position to prevent these injuries," Justice John Wiley remarked.

Wiley suggested that they might have demanded that a chaperone be there for the kids.