Pinnacle Entertainment has filed suit against the Port of Lake Charles. The lawsuit, filed in state district court, seeks to force the port to comply with an agreement to sell the company part of the property where its canceled Sugarcane Bay casino would have been located. Pinnacle also wants the court to bar the port from entering into any agreements to lease the remaining property to a competing casino project. The (Lake Charles) American Press says the suit involves the use of 234 acres of port land where Pinnacle, owner of L’Auberge du Lac casino resort, was to build Sugarcane Bay. The plan was scrapped in April. Pinnacle decided instead to concentrate on expanding its River Road casino resort, set to open in December 2011. The port says it was prepared to take legal action to force Pinnacle to give up its hold on the property.
Pinnacle sues Lake Charles port
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