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Judge dismisses Winklevosses’ latest suit against Facebook

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday dismissed a suit against Facebook Inc. by the Winklevoss twins, alleging that the social-networking service suppressed evidence that could have bolstered their claims that founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the site.

The challenge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts was the latest brought by the Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and their partner Divya Narendra, following their recent decision to not pursue a separate suit seeking a larger settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment. The Winklevoss twins could not immediately be reached for comment.

In the Massachusetts litigation, filed in 2007, the twins and Narendra allege that they tapped Zuckerberg to help them build a site eventually called ConnectU Inc. when they were all studying at Harvard University in 2003.

Instead, they allege, Zuckerberg used his experience with ConnectU to develop a competing site, which eventually became Facebook.

Last month, the plaintiffs filed a report with the Massachusetts court seeking discovery on the issued of whether or not “the Facebook Defendants intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence” that could have bolstered the twins’ case.

That followed a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to deny the twins a rehearing of their case seeking a revamped settlement agreement, and the twins’ decision not to pursue that case to the Supreme Court.

The twins had argued that had they known Facebook’s true internal valuation of the company, they would have sought a larger ownership stake than their roughly $65 million settlement awarded them.

Facebook filed a motion to have the Massachusetts litigation dismissed earlier this month.

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