 Winklevoss twins (Source: momdot.com)
After dropping the Supreme Court appeal yesterday, the Winklevosses took the case to federal court in Boston today
Remember when we all thought the Facebook feud between Mark
Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins was over? Well that was only yesterday, and we
thought wrong. After dropping the Supreme Court appeal yesterday, the
Winklevosses took the case to federal court in Boston today.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss went to Harvard
University with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. When creating social networking
site HarvardConnection (which was later renamed "ConnectU"), the
Winklevosses had asked Zuckerberg to join their team after losing their
programmer. He agreed and allegedly entered into an oral contract with the twins
and their partner Divya Narendra. But over the following two months, Zuckerberg
created his own social networking website called thefacebook.com while
corresponding with the Winklvosses and Narendra about HarvardConnection.
Zuckerberg's site launched on February 4, 2004.
The Winklevosses found out about it two days later and filed a lawsuit
later that year.
The Winklevosses won a $65 million settlement in
2008, but filed another lawsuit in 2010 claiming that a friend had lied about
the value of Facebook. In April 2011, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief
Judge Alex Kozinski ruled that the Winklevosses must accept their previous
settlement.
The Winklevosses were then seeking
Supreme Court review, but dropped
it in a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in
San Francisco yesterday.
But apparently that wasn't the end of this
drawn-out litigation. Today, the Winklevosses decided to ask a federal court in
Boston whether Facebook "intentionally or inadvertently suppressed
evidence" in regards to instant messages that were allegedly sent from Zuckerberg.
The instant messages the Winklevosses are
referring to are those allegedly found in Zuckerberg's computer when Facebook's
legal team conducted a search. One message outlined what he planned to do about
HarvardConnection.
"I'm going to [expletive] them," wrote
Zuckerberg. "They made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them.
So I'm like delaying it so it won't be ready until after the Facebook thing
comes out."
The Winklevosses noted that they wouldn't have
settled for the original settlement had they known about the instant messages.
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