Facebook Claimant’s Lawyers Quit After Judging Case a Fraud
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A New York law firm that represented Paul Ceglia in his suit claiming to own part of Facebook Inc. quit the case last year after determining the contract on which he bases his case is a fraud, according to a letter from the firm that was cited by a judge.
The letter, by Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, informed two other firms on Ceglia’s team, DLA Piper LLP and Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, that it was withdrawing from Ceglia’s case. U.S. Magistrate Leslie Foschio disclosed the subject of the April 13, 2011, letter, which wasn’t made public, in an order filed today in federal court in Buffalo, New York. He said he had reviewed the letter in chambers.