Snoop Dogg‘s case against Pabst Blue Ribbon will proceed as planned, after a judge threw out Pabst’s motion for summary judgement. Judge Malcolm Mackey said the version of events offered by Pabst and Snoop were simply too different for him to rule on.
“It’s maddening,” Mackey said while addressing attorneys on the case on Aug. 29, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “You gentlemen have conjured up a lot of facts on this case.”
Snoop is suing the budget beermaker over a clause in his Blast by Colt 45 spokesperson contract that entitled him to 10 percent of any sale of the brand, should a sale happen before 2016. Well, something that looked suspiciously like a sale did happen and now the Doggfather is looking for his cut.
More specifically, Pabst’s parent company sold all its stock in Pabst Brewing to another company. The defendants argue that the 2014 deal transferred control of the brand and not ownership, which attorneys argue that Pabst still holds.
“That transaction did not result in the sale of ‘the Blast by Colt 45 brand or the entire Colt 45 brand family. PBC owns these brands in their entirety to this day,” said Pabst attorney Robert Dugdale in a since-dismissed motion for summary judgment.
Snoop’s attorney Alex Weingarten thinks that’s ridiculous and said the deal was crafted “to intentionally frustrate Plaintiffs’ rights through a sham alter-ego holding company structure.”
“Pabst is trying to pull a fast one and argue that even though they sold this company for close to $700 million, they didn’t really sell the company,” Weingarten told the Hollywood Reporter. “It is preposterous and just like the judge saw through this nonsense today, we are confident that a jury will agree at our upcoming trial.”
That trial is set to begin on Oct. 31.
