Overview
- Judge Steve Cochran granted Walters’s January 7 motion to reconsider and vacated his December 16, 2025 dismissal of the case.
- The reinstatement follows California’s AB 250, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, which created a two-year window to revive certain time-barred adult sexual-assault claims.
- Cochran said the statute reactivates the lawsuit and indicated it is headed back toward trial, with a new hearing set for March 27.
- Walters, a former assistant who worked with Manson in 2010–2011, alleges sexual abuse, multiple assaults, drug-related travel, and that he showed her a video depicting abuse of a minor.
- Manson’s attorney Howard King said the claim will not succeed and asserted Warner committed no sexual assault, arguing Walters lacks a qualifying claim under the statute and cannot add new ones.