Despite the fact that an agreement was apparently reached over all of this, that previously reported Jackson memorabilia case is back in court. As you will remember, Florida company Universal Express recently announced their intentions to sell off a collection of Jackson family memorabilia which they'd purchased from a storage company who sold off the items due to the family's alleged failure to maintain payments. Michael and Janet Jackson responded to this announcement with plans for legal action to stop the sale going ahead. The aforementioned court settlement was reached, however, and the first sale went ahead, as reported, last month.
It transpires that the settlement included a clause which stated that some of the items were not to be included in the sale, and it would seem that the Jacksons have not yet had that stuff returned. Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ordered the disputed items to be impounded at the Clark County Court in Las Vegas whilst she sorted out their ownership, and scheduled a 16 Jul contempt of court trial after deciding that Universal Express had broken the earlier court order to withhold the items from auction.
Jo Coppedge, a lawyer for Guernsey's, the auction house who ran the first sale back in May, says that the auctioneer has no involvement in the court proceedings and will obey the judge's order to surrender the items. He told reporters: "Per the judge's order, we have delivered 35 items claimed by Janet Jackson and 23 items claimed by Michael Jackson, with two in transit to Las Vegas".