New York Supreme Court Justice Kornreich has announced that no further hearings or decisions regarding the America's Cup event will take place before the Match, scheduled to begin on February 8th, 2010.
Justice Kornreich informed both the Cup defender, Société Nautique de Genève (Alinghi), and the challenging Golden Gate Yacht Club (BMW/Oracle), that the court will not hear the American challenger's complaint regarding the origin of defender Alinghi's sails, nor Alinghis' counter-charge regarding the origin of the engine used on challenger BMW/Oracle prior to the match race series.
The Court's decision allows post-race legal complaints from either side.
Prior to this latest in a long series of court rulings involving the event, Alinghi had announced that they would forfeit the Cup, without racing, if the Court ruled that Alinghi's sails were illegal under the rules of the event.
This final ruling allows BMW/Oracle, a trimaran, to challenge Cup defender Alinghi's catamaran in the first-ever America's Cup match race between two multihulled racing yachts.
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