Paul Ceglia, the man who claims half-ownership of Facebook, has got a new law firm after big name law firm DLA Piper withdrew from the case. He is now being represented by San Diego attorneys Jeff and Lake. These eminent ambulance-chasers replace the rather better known DLA Piper. The case has been labelled 'an outrageous, …

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 12:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

If scavenging lawyers pull out...

... of a case potentially worth half a billion dollars, it tells you a lot about your chances!

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 12:39 GMT Anonymous Coward

Who would believe ...

... that a firewood salesman owns half of Facebook?

Apparently the world is full of dumbf*cks.

Thumbs up to the dumbf*ck jury that awards him half.

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 15:25 GMT kain preacher

con man

He either is a con man or a SCO exec. This guy is will continue till he pisses a judge off and toss him in jail. I do believe it will happen.

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1. Thursday 30th June 2011 07:59 GMT LateNightLarry
  
  con man
  
  Or if he keeps trying after repeatedly losing, the judge might declare him a "vexatious litigant". That would have the effect of requiring him to get permission from the courts before he could even file a lawsuit over anything. Years ago I knew a woman who kept suing her doctors for malpractice on totally specious grounds most of the time... Of course every time she sued, the doctor would drop her as a patient so she kept having to find new doctors... until she sued the new doctor... Finally the court declared her a vexatious litigant and put an end to her game... She didn't have a job... made her living by suing doctors who treated her.
  
  Fail, because she was a failure at life, but she had one extremely attractive daughter
  
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