Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Judge recommends Facebook ownership lawsuit be dismissed, calls contract a 'fabrication'

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Paul Ceglia has long insisted he's entitled to 50 percent of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook empire. He filed a lawsuit against the social network's founder in 2010, claiming that a 2003 contract between the two granted Ceglia control over half of Zuckerberg's stake. Facebook has vehemently denied the allegations from the start; last year it produced a large sampling of evidence from forensic experts that called Ceglia's veracity into question. The company's lawyers painted him as "a career criminal and scam artist." And now a federal judge may have delivered the death blow to Ceglia's case.


In a court filing, Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio today recommended that Facebook's motion to dismiss the lawsuit be granted, pointing to "clear and...


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