The hip-hop star, real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus, is barred from travelling to the U.K. after he was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport in 2006 following a fracas, and he's previously urged stars including David Beckham and Sir Paul MCCartney to help get the ban overturned.
The Drop It Like It's Hot hitmaker appealed the ruling and in January 2008 Judge Nehar Bird overturned the ban, saying there was no evidence Broadus had been responsible for the fracas. But government officials took the case to the Court of Appeal, where it was decided that the judge may have "misinterpreted the test of exclusion".
Broadus is now fighting for the ban to be lifted once again, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The star's agent, Brent Smith at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, says, "Snoop has missed out on several arena tour opportunities, many TV and festival opportunities, as well as a few proposed charity events... And now the U.K. taxpayer is financing the court appeals."
The battle to overturn the ban has now picked up pace - last month (Jan10) a court hearing was held in London, where two senior immigration judges watched a video of the airport incident.
In the hearing, the lawyer representing the government, Jeremy Johnson, claimed the incident shows what happens in the rapper's world "when something does go wrong. Mr. Broadus may react badly and may threaten violence."
But Broadus' lawyer, Amanda Weston, argued: "This has become a minister defending a decision rather than a careful review" of the facts.
