Fontainebleau’s counterclaim against Wynn Resorts over exec moves got nasty in a hurry

The Fontainebleau court response to Wynn’s lawsuit over the new resort interfering with existing or potential contractual relations by poaching Wynn employees has devolved into a gang fight.

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“Well, that has gotten real nasty real fast,” I. Nelson Rose emailed me last week after I asked him to have a look at Fontainebleau’s court response and counterclaim to Wynn’s Feb. 29 lawsuit in Clark County District Court.

“I am only on paragraph 16 and I am not sure I will read any more,” said Rose, a Utah State University professor who also writes the “Gambling and the Law” blog.

“It is interesting to watch, like a car crash, but only from a distance,” he said of Wynn v. Fontainebleau.