Paul Ceglia
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Blogging, Contracts, Copyright, Deaths, Facebook, Morning Docket, Rape
Morning Docket: 08.08.11
* A scam blogger hit it hard last week, calling Cooley out for policing the internet. Guess we know why s/he chose to go by “Rockstar.” [Detroit Free Press] * Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday to remember the life of slain Mercer Law School graduate, Lauren Giddings. Rest in peace. [Baltimore Sun] * Other […]
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Facebook
DLA Piper Withdraws From Paul Ceglia's Facebook Lawsuit, And Now The Firm Looks Quite Foolish
We've devoted a lot of coverage to Paul Ceglia's lawsuit claiming an ownership stake in Facebook because it's kind of funny. And we keep covering Ceglia because it just keeps getting funnier. Ceglia just replaced his counsel, again, so we can say farewell to Biglaw firm DLA Piper's involvement. - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Crime, Facebook, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Gibson Dunn Hopes To Take A Prisoner in the Facebook Case
When Facebook called Paul Ceglia, the man who claims to have a contract with Mark Zuckerberg for half of Facebook, an “inveterate scam artist,” Ceglia’s lawyers at DLA Piper replied that the company had no facts to back that claim up. “We are prepared to move the case forward into discovery and our client looks […]
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Biglaw, Facebook, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Gibson Dunn Goes Medieval on Facebook Plaintiff
Now that the Winklevoss twins have been sent packing by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (with a kick in the ass on the way out the door from the rest of the Ninth Circuit), with a 0.00% chance of the Supreme Court taking their case, Facebook’s lawyers can focus on the latest “Actually, I Own Facebook” […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.27.11
* Drowning in loan debt? There’s a niche for that! A Connecticut lawyer is paying off his $160K of law school loans with a client base comprised of — you guessed it — lawyers. [Hartford Business Journal via ABA Journal] * In New York, new “while black” violations seem to pop up every few months. […]
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Biglaw, Facebook, Social Networking Websites, Technology
The Facebook Lawsuit That Wasn't In The Movie
Thanks to Ben Mezrich, David Fincher, and Aaron Sorkin, we all feel like we know the backstory of the creation of Facebook (shameless plug: please like the ATL Facebook page). It goes something like this: Mark Zuckerberg was a shady little brat, who screwed over his one friend while he was building what would become […] -
Contracts, Facebook, Social Networking Websites
The Facebook Lawsuit: Everybody Calm Down and Remember Your 1L Contracts Class
The internet is on fire today. The purported contract between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and random New York resident Paul Ceglia has hit the worldwide web. We’ve written about Ceglia’s claims to 84% of Facebook before. But now that people have actually seen the document, everybody wants to talk about it. I even ended up […] -
Facebook, Lawsuit of the Day, Social Networking Websites
Facebook Wants to De-Friend State Court
The meteoric rise of Facebook has tended to inspire lawsuits by those who claim to have collaborated with Mark Zuckerberg in the site’s creation. The latest to make a claim on the 500-million-member site is a wood chipper man in New York. We don’t understand how Paul D. Ceglia went from writing code to producing […]
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