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Lawsuit vs. Zuckerberg, Facebook to Stay in Federal Court
Topic Started: Apr 12 2011, 06:12 PM (106 Views)
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Lawsuit vs. Zuckerberg, Facebook to Stay in Federal Court
New York software developer, who claims to have rights to 50 percent of Facebook founder's equity in Facebook, will have to litigate in federal court. Facebook claims fraud.

An appellate court judge ruled April 11 that because Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now a resident of California, a New York man's lawsuit claiming part buy runescape money ownership of Facebook should remain in federal court rather than be returned to a New York state court.

The lawsuit brought in state court in 2010 by Paul Ceglia, who claims a 2003 contract he had with White Plains, N.Y. native Zuckerberg rs power leveling entitles him to 50 percent of Zuckerberg's equity interest in Facebook, was moved to federal court two weeks ago.

It should not be moved again to a state court, ruled U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara in Buffalo, N.Y.
Ceglia had claimed the Facebook CEO buy runescape gold, whose parents still live in New York, is still a legal resident of that state. Zuckerberg, 26, moved to in Los Gatos, Calif., a half-hour drive from the company's Palo Alto headquarters, in 2010 but had resided in Palo Alto for six years before that.

"As of 2010, when this lawsuit was filed, Facebook had over 500 million active users and employed over 1,600 people," Arcara wrote in his decision. "It is simply incomprehensible that Zuckerberg intends to abandon his life, friends and daily management of his multibillion-dollar buy runescape accounts company to return to New York and live near his parents."

Zuckerberg has lived in California continuously since 2004, has a driver's license issued by the state, votes, pays taxes and receives his mail in the state, Arcara said.

Ceglia, who was not a Harvard University classmate of Zuckerberg's, claims that he has a contract with Zuckerberg for development of the software program language and Web site concept that became Facebook, Ceglia attorney Robert W. Brownlie of DLA Piper told eWEEK.

Ceglia was a "small entrepreneur" in western New York at the time he knew Zuckerberg, Brownlie said.
"We are pleased that the court agreed with us that this case belongs in the federal court," Facebook spokesman Andrew runescape power leveling Noyes said in a company statement.

"This is a fraudulent lawsuit brought by a scam artist, and we look forward to defending it in federal court."

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