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ETNZ Files Lawsuit Against Defender Alinghi

Emirates Team New Zealand filed suit yesterday in the ongoing America’s Cup saga, charging the trustee, Société Nautique Genève, and Ernesto Bertarelli’s America’s Cup Management with breach of contract over enticements they tendered in return for ETNZ’s signing of the much disputed AC 33 protocol. ETNZ is claiming that SNG and the ACM failed to deliver on those — namely the promise of holding the event in 2009 despite having what ETNZ contends was reasonable opportunity to do so. By most accounts, this one will take a lot longer to resolve than BMW Oracle Racing’s pending matter in the New York Courts. And while we don’t know where it’s going, we can’t help but think it won’t be much help for Ernesto Bertarelli’s case in the court of public opinion.

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