{"id":7968,"date":"2025-09-30T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/hatebreed-and-jamey-jasta-slam-ex-bassist-chris-beatties-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:29:33","slug":"hatebreed-and-jamey-jasta-slam-ex-bassist-chris-beatties-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/hatebreed-and-jamey-jasta-slam-ex-bassist-chris-beatties-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatebreed and Jamey Jasta Slam Ex-Bassist Chris Beattie’s Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tHatebreed and its frontman Jamey Jasta say founding bassist Chris Beattie has no legal basis to sue over his ouster from the metalcore band last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeattie brought a lawsuit against Hatebreed and Jasta (James Shanahan) this summer, claiming he had been unfairly kicked out of the band after 30 years. The bassist said Jasta made up a phony story about him harassing a security guard to justify the ouster, when really Jasta wanted to take home a larger share of Hatebreed\u2019s profits.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHatebreed and Jasta have now filed their first official response to the litigation. In a motion to strike some of the claims docketed on Thursday (Sept. 25), lawyers for the band and its frontman say Beattie\u2019s lawsuit is a \u201cgarden variety band break-up case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff, a disgruntled former band member of the band known as \u2018Hatebreed,\u2019 erroneously asserts a right to remain a permanent member of the band in perpetuity despite the fact that the underlying relationship between the parties was terminable at-will,\u201d wrote Hatebreed and Jasta\u2019s attorneys.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the motion, there is no written contract that guarantees Beattie the right to stay a member of Hatebreed forever. Therefore, the band and Jasta say they had the legal right to fire Beattie at any point, and there\u2019s no valid legal footing for the bassist to bring breach of contract claims against them.<\/p>\n

\n\tHatebreed and Jasta are asking a judge to ax four of the six claims in Beattie\u2019s lawsuit, all tied to his ouster from the band. The other two claims concern Hatebreed\u2019s merchandise sales, which are not covered in the motion to strike.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe band and Jasta\u2019s attorney, Brian Caplan<\/strong>, declined to comment on Tuesday (Sept. 30), telling Billboard<\/em>, \u201cWe think the motion papers speak for themselves.\u201d Reps for Beattie did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeattie and Jasta co-founded Hatebreed in 1994, and both remained in the band until this past November, when Beattie abruptly departed and told fans in a social media post that the decision was not his own.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Beattie\u2019s lawsuit, filed in July, Jasta fired the bassist and claimed it was because he\u2019d harassed a Live Nation security guard at Connecticut\u2019s Toyota Oakdale Theater. Beattie claimed this was \u201cpatently untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBeattie alleged in his lawsuit that Jasta axed him out of greed so that he could recoup a larger chunk of Hatebreed\u2019s touring revenues, publishing royalties and merchandise sales. The bassist is seeking financial damages from his former bandmates.<\/p>\n


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