America's Cup back in
court - the final twist
in this legal marathon
This isn't quite what billionaire sailors and
in Albany in the bitter case between San GGYC is hoping that there's one more.
one-time friends Larry Ellison and Ernesto
Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, which In its last-chance appeal, the American club
Bertarelli had in mind when they spoke in
backs Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing, and is asking New York state's highest court
recent years about modernizing the stodgy
Societe Nautique de Geneve, the Swiss club to reverse the New York Supreme Court's
old America's Cup to the point that even
that backs Bertarelli's two-time defending Appellate Division ruling last summer that
landlubbers would embrace it.
America's Cup champion Alinghi. Spain's Club Nautico Espanol de Vela
(CNEV), and not the Golden Gate Yacht
More than a year and a half after the end of
The case between these bickering Club, is the Challenger of Record for the
possibly the most exciting regattas in the
billionaires who sail aboard the sloops 33rd America's Cup.
158-year history of the America's Cup, the
they own—Ellison is founder and CEO of
future of the oldest trophy in international
business software giant Oracle Corp. and
sports will be decided not by sailors but by
Bertarelli is a biotech tycoon—has already
We will know in
seven judges in a New York court.
had two twists as abrupt as a boat turning
Oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday
180 degrees around a buoy.
45 – 60 days.
before the New York State Court of Appeals
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