Winklevoss Twins Will Take Facebook Suit To Supreme Court

The Winklevosses just won't quit--and they're taking their case to the top.

Despite having won millions of dollars in their suit against Facebook, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, whose attempts to reopen the settlement were rejected by a federal appeals court, say they will now appeal the Supreme Court in the hopes of obtaining an even bigger payout from their Facebook suit.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court on Monday refused the Winklevoss twins' request for an appeal to their settlement with Facebook founder and former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg. The Winklevoss twins allege that Zuckerberg stole their website idea and created Facebook.

The Winklevosses are not stopping there: According to CNET, "The twins' attorneys announced [Monday] that they intend to file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to hear their case against Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg."

All Things D has published a release issued on Monday by Howard Rice, the law firm representing the Winklevii and business partner Divya Narendra. The release claims that Facebook undervalued their share price when the settlement was reached and may owe the Winklevoss brothers and Narendra millions more.

"Settlements should be based on honest dealing, and courts have wisely refused to enforce a settlement obtained by fraudulent means," the release reads. "The Court's decision shut the courthouse door to a solid claim that Facebook obtained this settlement by committing securities fraud. Our Petition to the Supreme Court will ask the high court to decide whether that door should be reopened."

Mark Zuckerberg also faces a lawsuit filed by New York state businessman Paul Ceglia, who claims to own at least 50 percent of Facebook after signing a contract with Zuckerberg in 2003.

Comments

[Aoi Kunieda]

04:17 PM on 05/21/2011

stop wasting time suing people's pants off and start doing something useful! you're rich and successful, what more do you need? Seriously, the Supreme Court's gonna get pissed of at you people.

[Scott Zelesnikar]

12:30 PM on 05/18/2011

these to bozos are like a bad cream...they keep showing up...just like palin and the fox gang...go away losers...you spoiled little brats

[cincinnati]

12:36 AM on 05/30/2011

But MZ screwed them, that is pretty clear.
He was hired to create a web site, and then
dishonestly put them off while making his
own that was almost identical.

Then he screws his best friend and first
source of money....what a guy ?!?

[Niet]

02:22 AM on 05/18/2011

Guys! Just give it up already. Put those over priced educations to some better use. If you could have made Facebook, then make something better instead.

[EricBishop]

08:45 PM on 05/17/2011

In this space (a.k.a. NOT privacy or free speech), the Supreme Court's going to tell these guys to f'off.

[Tanrioldu]

08:07 PM on 05/17/2011

I hope the Supreme Court throws out their case and then fines them for wasting their time. It's high time these two dooshes stop whining. You are Harvard graduates, rich, olympians... how about you do something productive and useful rather than just spend all your time suing?

[kosmotis69]

06:14 PM on 05/17/2011

Have these two twinks ever done a days work in their entire lives?
What could they do?

[cincinnati]

12:37 AM on 05/30/2011

Maybe....but MZ screwed them, it's obvious.

[Steven Covey]

06:00 PM on 05/17/2011

Remember that the Supreme Court needs to accept the case, all they can do is ask. If there is no IMPORTANT thing to be addressed, then they will reject it and the lower courts verdict will stand. This all costs MONEY that the twins will have to cough up!

[MIKEinNYC]

05:30 PM on 05/17/2011

Applying to the Supreme Court for permission to plead your case before them, ("granting certiorari"), is no big deal. Anybody can apply. Almost all such applications get denied, however.

How many cases a year do you think there are? How many of those cases do you think the Supreme Court will hear in a year? Maybe 85.

The chances that these two Harvard educated lamebrains with the best counsel that daddy could buy will convince the Supreme Court to take their case because they think that they can convince the Court that they were duped and didn't know what they were doing when they entered into their settlement is mighty slim. They'll be lucky to get out of this without being assessed costs and disbursements.

[FoxIslander]

05:24 PM on 05/17/2011

The Winklevoss twins are listening to their lawyers a bit much. That will stop when they're broke.

[Tanrioldu]

08:09 PM on 05/17/2011

I just had a vision of 2 identical looking bums on a street corner begging for change in 10 years from now, rambling on about how they invented 'it', it was all their idea.

[bbb3]

05:00 PM on 05/17/2011

Oh C'mon! Give them each a 2 dollar bill and call it good. Especially, while most of the rest of us "have" to work for our money. Daddy, you shorted us on our allowance, now we gonna sue you too...

[lcima]

04:54 PM on 05/17/2011

The Winkietwinkies are obviously bored. It's difficult to believe they couldn't parlay their Harvard degrees into something a little more substantive than mindless litigation.

[Liz Roth Austin]

08:50 PM on 05/17/2011

Need to stay in the news. As PT Barnam said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity". They just prove it!!

[lcima]

04:51 PM on 05/17/2011

These two goobers were WAY better looking in the movie.

[Tanrioldu]

08:10 PM on 05/17/2011

It was actually one guy who played both roles.

[Atsaguy]

04:48 PM on 05/17/2011

Greedy Pigs.

[cincinnati]

12:38 AM on 05/30/2011

Compared to Mark Z....seriously ?

Then he pushed out his best friend and
source of the development money, trying
to reduce his share from 30% to less than 1.....ONE, not even that ??!

[lazyhal3]

04:46 PM on 05/17/2011

I can't believe the Supreme Court would even hear this case let alone reverse the lower courts decision.

[Kristin Talbott]

04:34 PM on 05/17/2011

I just love that the only way to find out what the posting guidelines really are around here is to spend time composing a post, realize that it's not showing up and then have to guess exactly what it was the HP found so offensive.

My "guess" is that it my case, I actually had the gall to point out that Facebook has a downside in my lead-up to praising Zuckerberg for what he's accomplished.

Sigh.