Winklevoss Twins At It Again
July 26th, 2011 | by Jen |A US judge has blocked the latest courtroom campaign by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss to undo a deal they made to settle a squabble over who came up with the idea for Facebook.
US District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Boston on Friday granted a request by Facebook that the case there be dismissed. The judge’s terse written order did not outline the reasoning behind his decision.
The twin brothers and fellow ConnectU founder Divya Narendra last month ramped up litigation in Massachusetts in the US accusing Facebook of duping them in a deal they made in a lawsuit charging that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea.
Lawyers for the Winklevosses tried to renew the languishing civil case in Boston after similarly-themed litigation failed in California and they opted not to appeal it to the Supreme Court.
“These are old and baseless allegations that have been considered and rejected previously by the courts,” Facebook attorney Neel Chatterjee said when the litigation in Boston was revived.
The Winklevoss lawyers were expected to ask that the Boston case be reopened on the basis of a rule allowing that to happen if key information has been withheld.