Court records released late yesterday indicate Zuckerberg paid an undisclosed sum in cash and stock to several of his former Harvard classmates who hired Zuckerberg to help work on their project.  

The two sides agreed to a settlement in February, but ConnectU dragged Facebook back into court on Monday, attempting to see if it could get the court case reopened.   But Judge Ware took just two days before rejecting ConnectU's bid, stating, "The court finds that the agreement is enforceable and orders its enforcement."  

ConnectU tried to claim Facebook failed to disclose the value of common stock it had received from Facebook, but the judge decided there was no evidence Facebook misrepresented the stock.

The competing ConnectU social networking site still believes the agreement in February was only a tentative agreement and shouldn't have been enforceable.

ConnectU wanted to try and reopen the case after it allegedly found new evidence it wanted to show the judge to try and prove Zuckerberg used stolen code and ideas to create Facebook.

"We are happy that Judge Ware enforced the agreement settling our dispute with the ConnectU founders," Facebook said in a statement.  "The ConnectU founders understood the deal they made, and we are gratified the court rejected their false allegations of fraud.  Their challenge was simply a case of "buyer's remorse," as described by the Boston court earlier this month."

In an interesting turn of events, much to the dismay of journalists wanting to cover the case, U.S. District Judge James Ware unexpectedly barred the media and public from the court room over the past week.

Facebook has helped turn Zuckerberg into a billionaire, with the large amount of money targeting him in several other lawsuits.  The worst case scenario could have seen Zuckerberg lose control of the company he started in 2004 while still studying at Harvard.

The case between Facebook and ConnectU is now officially closed.