Paul Ceglia

Can Mark Zuckerberg's Emails Save Facebook $50 Billion?

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 05.26.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a clien...

Facebook Moves To Kill Suit Brought By Man Claiming To Own Half The Company

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 05.26.2012

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Attorneys for Facebook sought the dismissal Monday of what they called an "opportunistic and fraudulent" lawsuit by a New York m...

More Lawyers Join Man's Fight For Facebook Ownership

AP | Posted 05.05.2012

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An upstate New York man who says he's entitled to half ownership of Facebook has added five attorneys to his legal team. Paul C...

New York Man May Owe Facebook Big Money

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 04.02.2012

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lawyers for Facebook are looking for $84,000 in legal fees from a New York man after a judge ruled he caused delays in his lawsu...

Judge: Man Claiming Half Of Facebook Must Return To U.S.

AP | Posted 01.03.2012

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York man who's been staying in Ireland while his lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook is argued has been told to co...

Facebook Ownership Suit Back In Court

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A New York man's claim that he's entitled to half ownership of Facebook is again before a federal judge. Legal arguments are schedul...

New Evidence Emerges In Facebook Ownership Case

Posted 12.17.2011

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - The New York man claiming half of Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg's stake in the social networking company t...

Man Claiming To Own Half Of Facebook Must Hand Over All Emails

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 10.30.2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A man suing for part ownership of Facebook must give lawyers for the social networking company access to every email he's exchan...

Man Suing For Half Of Facebook Misses Deadline To Produce Evidence

AP | Posted 10.29.2011

By the Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A federal judge says a New York man who's suing for part ownership of Facebook can't have more time to pro...

Facebook Granted Access To Personal Emails In Ownership Suit

Posted 10.18.2011

AP/HUFFINGTON POST (BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- A judge on Wednesday gave Facebook access to the personal email accounts of a man suing for half ownership of th...

Facebook Poised To Seek End To Paul Ceglia Suit

AP | Posted 10.17.2011

AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST (BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- Facebook attorneys appear poised to ask a judge to throw out a western New York man's lawsuit claiming owner...

Facebook Says New Evidence Proves Zuck Didn't Sign Away 50% Of Facebook

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 10.16.2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. (Associated Press)— Facebook attorneys late Monday revealed evidence that they say proves a New York man fabricated a contract that he...

Facebook Claims Fraud 'Smoking Gun' In Paul Ceglia Case

Wired | Posted 10.07.2011

Facebook says they’ve found the “authentic contract” between Ceglia and Zuckerberg. Facebook is also charging that Ceglia, who they say is now l...

Lawyers Abandon Man Claiming To Own Half Of Facebook

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 08.29.2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York man suing Mark Zuckerberg for a stake in Facebook has changed attorneys as the multibillion-dollar social media compa...

Mark Zuckerberg Says He Never Signed Away Half Of Facebook

Posted 08.02.2011

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alleged contract and emails that a New York man says entitle him to a huge stake in Facebook are forge...

Facebook Has Ugly Words For Man Who Claims To Own Half Of Facebook

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.27.2011

First it was Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Now, New Yorker Paul Ceglia is the latest thorn in Facebook's side, claiming that prior business dealings w...

Facebook Email Drama Gets The Taiwanese Animation Treatment

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 06.14.2011

What's a juicy controversy without a slightly absurd interpretive video by Next Media Animation? The Taiwanese studio has tackled Facebook's latest...

Could This Email Cost Mark Zuckerberg 50% Of Facebook?

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 06.12.2011

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg scored a major victory on Monday, when a U.S. appeals court ruled that the Winklevoss twins could not appeal their pr...

Man Who Claims To Own 50% Of Facebook Files New Evidence

Business Insider | Posted 06.12.2011

Remember Paul Ceglia? He's the fellow in upstate New York who sued Mark Zuckerberg last July, claiming that, way back in 2003, Zuckerberg had agree...

Facebook CEO's Privacy Fight

Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 05.25.2011

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seekin...

Man Claiming To Own Facebook Says He'd Hire Zuckerberg

Bloomberg | Bob Van Voris | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Ceglia, who claims in a lawsuit that he owns 84 percent of Facebook Inc., said his case wouldn't have been possible if state troopers hadn't come...

Facebook 'Suspects' Zuckerberg Contract Was 'Forged'

Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 05.25.2011

Facebook says it "strongly suspects" forgery is involved in a contract showing its founder Mark Zuckerberg signed away more than half the rights to Fa...

Facebook Claimant Must Answer 'Where Have You Been?' To Win

Huffington Post/AP | Carolyn Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Facebook will try to get a New York man's claim for majority ownership of the website thrown out of court, attorneys for the social ...

Paul Ceglia Claims To Own Facebook

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

New York web designer Paul Ceglia, who has filed a suit against Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, claims he owns an 84% stake in Facebook. Ceg...