YOU’RE FIRED!
Pearcy, DeMartini and Croucier take control and Blotzer is expelled from Ratt
LOS ANGELES, California — Breaking news from the Ratt world.
Metal Sludge has received a press release tonight that concludes what we’ve been hinting at for weeks.
It appears that the Ratt saga has come to a close.
We will let the press release do the talking.
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11/29/2016
For immediate release:
Bobby Blotzer fails in effort to hijack RATT, and is out!
After the 4 remaining original members of RATT (Pearcy, DeMartini, Croucier and Blotzer) finished touring in 2014, Bobby Blotzer began touring as “Bobby Blotzer’s Ratt Experience,” and Juan Croucier began touring as “Ratt’s Juan Croucier.” Realizing that he could make 10x as much per show touring as RATT, Blotzer relabeled his cover band as RATT over the objection of every other member of the band and then proceeded to get into litigation with each of his 3 partners in an effort to usurp control of the RATT name, claiming that WBS owned the RATT name and he controlled WBS.
A Federal District Court in the Central District of California has now Ordered judgment to be entered against WBS/Blotzer, finding that WBS does not own the RATT name (WBS, Inc. v. Juan Croucier et al., Case No. 2:15-cv- 07251-DDP). Under a 1985 written RATT Partnership Agreement, the name/trademarks are the property of the Partnership and can only be transferred with the unanimous approval of all Partners. Thus, in 1997 when Blotzer, DeMartini and Pearcy purported to transfer the trademarks to WBS, that transfer was invalid since Juan Croucier was still a Partner yet was never advised of, let alone consented to, the transfer. Thus, the Partnership still owns the RATT name.
Pearcy, DeMartini and Croucier have also expelled Blotzer from the Partnership. Blotzer thus has no further interest in the RATT name and may now only refer to himself as a “former member of Ratt” per the RATT Partnership Agreement. DeMartini, Pearcy and Croucier look forward to continuing to tour as RATT and thank their fans for all the ongoing support.
