Court order for Michael to pay costs

On Monday, February 23, the second prosecutor of the Torrance Court in Los Angeles issued its ruling in Michael’s financial case in favor of the law firm Ayscough & Marar. The firm had sued Michael in 2006 for late payment of his debts to the court. In 2005, the firm had acted as Michael’s representative in many of his court cases. Ayscough says that, on behalf of Michael’s brother Randy Jackson—who had been their client for years—they were hired to work for Michael. At that time, Michael was involved in a case of sexual abuse allegations, and in June 2005 he was acquitted of all those charges. In the 2005 court case, the presiding judge issued an order requiring all court information to remain sealed, and the firm also tried to prevent the information from leaking outside the courtroom. The firm was also employed in some other financial cases involving Michael. The owners of the firm now claim that Michael still hasn’t fully paid the service fees he received from the firm. In 2006, Michael filed a counter-suit against the firm, claiming that the owners had threatened him that if he didn’t pay his debt, they would provide his confidential case information to the media. Of course, Michael’s lawsuit was taken off the court’s agenda, and before the case against Michael was taken to the Los Angeles court in June 2007, Michael agreed to pay his debts. He also agreed to pay the $440,000 fee that the firm had incurred for suing him. Michael then claimed that the judge had mistakenly rejected his request to delay the proceedings of this case. Brent Ayscough, one of the firm’s owners, said that in January 2008 Michael had paid all the costs of their lawsuit against him. He also said that they may try in another petition to force Michael to pay the costs they incurred for rejecting his claims. Source: eMJey / dailybreeze / Metropolitan News Enterprise