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I predict that the Italian legal system will eventually issue a ruling which terminates legal action, along the lines of "nothing to see here...move along". They will do it because if either Coughlan or Stepney are dragged into court, Ferrari will be forced to answer (in court and outside) questions like (a) how did you so seriously screw up your relationship with a key employee that he felt a compulsion to steal IP (b) how/why did your processes let him steal the IP and carry it outside of the team? I do not think that anybody from Ferrari would like to have to answer questions like this in a court of law. There is also the little matter of Stepney being intimately associated with Ferrari's recent championships. If he has information about how Ferrari creatively interpreted the F1 regulations to build a faster car, some of that information might be embarrassing if revealed in open court. I truly believe that a lot of teams have been bending or end-running the tech regs at various times in the last 15 years. Nobody in F1 wants that kind of dirty laundry being washed in public right now.
My conclusion: there will be irresistible pressure to shut down all remaining inquiries, legal actions etc.