Legal Opinion
Elkhart Lake's Road America, Inc. v. Chicago Historic Races, Ltd., and Joseph Marchetti
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 20, 1998No. 97-2618PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Chicago Historic Races produced a vintage automobile race at Road America’s track in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, annually for sixteen years. The parties are now embroiled in a dispute over the meaning of a contract provision that Chicago Historic Races labels ambiguous. Road America claims the provision gave it the right to terminate the contract at will with notice. Chicago Historic Races counters that the provision allowed cancellation of the race and not the contract, and that Road America was obliged to use Chicago Historic Races as the sanctioning…
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