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Court won t let ConnectU out of Facebook settlement

Posted on June 26, 2008

A federal judge just issued a ruling that may finally end the legal dispute between social networking companies Facebook and ConnectU. They reached a confidential settlement earlier this year, but ConnectU s founders have been trying to back out and reopen the lawsuit, saying they ve found new evidence to support their case.Judge James Ware s response to ConnectU s claims came earlier tonight, and he sided with Facebook, meaning that ConnectU s founders are stuck with the settlement. Apparently, their legal argument was that the deal was fraudulent, because Facebook misrepresented it...

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facebook , social networking