Winklevoss Twins Sue Facebook In Boston Court--A Day After Dropping Supreme Court Appeal

(Reuters) - Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are pushing ahead with another suit against Facebook, a day after they decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling upholding their $65 million settlement with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.

In a status report filed on Thursday with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the twins and their business partner, Divya Narendra, said they would move the court for discovery on whether Facebook "intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence" during settlement proceedings over claims that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a college social networking website.

The claim in the Massachusetts Court relates to documents and communications that would have thrown light on the exact relationship between the twins and Zuckerberg at the time of Facebook's founding and says that Facebook should have disclosed those documents during the original settlement discussions.

The original settlement was intended to resolve a feud over whether Zuckerberg stole the idea for what became the world's most popular social networking website from the Winklevosses, who like him had attended Harvard University. Their battle was dramatized in the 2010 film "The Social Network.

After agreeing to the cash-and-stock accord, the Winklevosses sought to undo it, saying it was fraudulent because Facebook hid information from them, and that they deserved more money.

Tyler Meade, counsel for the Winklevoss twins and Narendra, declined to comment.

In a statement, Facebook's outside counsel Neel Chatterjee said, "These are old and baseless allegations that have been considered and rejected previously by the courts."

(Reporting by Jochelle Mendonca in Bangalore; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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Comments

[RedDog79]

11:06 AM on 06/28/2011

hey stop acting like babies and get a job.

[kiddub]

09:54 AM on 06/28/2011

They better get their money before FB's true value is realized and the company crashes.

[William Brock]

02:23 AM on 06/28/2011

When are these two "Brick Heads" going to get a job?

[Wuud52]

12:46 AM on 06/28/2011

HOW SAD...

As rich as these guys are, with a little creativity, they could have launched 10 businesses by now. Instead, they will go down in history as the whining rich babies that were never happy and never succeeded in anything except chasing Mark their entire lives. Way to make the family proud.

[NAmores]

06:30 PM on 06/27/2011

Gumby lives!

[hungrypilot]

08:59 AM on 06/27/2011

Spend your $65 million already?

[TooKrunk]

12:12 PM on 06/28/2011

Yes! On hair gel, waxings, and designer club jeans

[Rene Epicurus]

08:35 AM on 06/27/2011

Shouldn't these two Ivy League Ken-dolls be running one of their daddy's businesses?

Their obsessive litigiousness against a guy who’s smarter, a harder worker, and now has more money, than either of them, is starting to become embarrassing.

C’mon Daddy Winklesvoss – give the boys something to do!

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

04:47 AM on 06/27/2011

Since they supposedly created Facebook, they should just create another Facebook and move on already. You snooze, you lose. {{-_-}}

[Vic22]

05:06 PM on 06/26/2011

Why didn't Sarah Jessica Parker play the role of the Winklevi in the social network?

[Vic22]

05:02 PM on 06/26/2011

Why the long faces?

[livesimply]

02:56 AM on 06/27/2011

LOL!

[Rene Epicurus]

08:35 AM on 06/27/2011

Ah - they're just horsin' around.

[nancytailor123]

01:18 PM on 06/26/2011

Andrew Noyes, a Facebook spokesman, said Wednesday: "We've considered this case closed for a long time, and we're pleased to see the other party now agrees. for More http://tinyurl.com/6arsf74

[nancytailor123]

01:17 PM on 06/26/2011

In a court filing Thursday, the Winklevosses and their business partner Divya Narendra said they planned to ask the judge to investigate whether Facebook "intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence." You can see our earlier coverage on this here. http://tinyurl.com/6arsf74

[MarsAmbassador]

12:47 PM on 06/26/2011

They have a case because the settlement they agreed to was based on falsified and fraudulent financial information provided by Facebook in an attempt to minimize the settlement. I hope they destroy Zuckerberg.

[phazeroftruth]

10:38 PM on 06/26/2011

Can you prove that? Where are the legal briefs that say that?

[Leonard Williams]

01:39 AM on 06/27/2011

marsambassador-
you can wish in one hand and poop in the other, and see which get filled first. Those twins are greedy as hell. They have, well they had 65 million dollars that they didn't earn. If they're so sharp, why can't they take that money and build a company of their own, and stop hounding Mark..

[edenooch]

11:28 AM on 06/26/2011

enough of these goons. What article are u going feature next week pertaining to their next abomination?

[dblueII]

02:52 PM on 06/26/2011

Abomination?

[Leonard Williams]

01:24 AM on 06/27/2011

The Winkie boys will hound that young man until they're dead a buried. The biggest mistake he ever made was giving them the 65 million dollars. Those two young guys are greedy. If they were as sgarp as they pretended to be, they could take the 65 million and build a competing company. After all, the Zuckerburg(sp) developed his company without millions of dollars..

[crankyCrackPot]

10:44 AM on 06/26/2011

I have nothing socially acceptable to say about these two.
That they are trying to steal in court what they lost in the market at the expense of my tax dollars is displeasing to say the least, at least in a socially acceptable manner.