Michael Jackson employees ‘had no legal duty to protect children from pop star’

Pop star Michael Jackson died in 2009 (PA)

Workers for companies owned by Michael Jackson had no legal obligation to protect children from the pop star, a US attorney has told an appeals court.

Jackson estate lawyer Jonathan Steinsapir pushed back against a tentative decision by California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal, which said it was inclined to revive previously dismissed lawsuits from two men who allege Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were boys.