NY man suing Facebook has to allow email access

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AP article appearing on the Wall Street Journal website.


The article discusses the latest development in Paul Ceglia's case against Facebook.  "Judge Richard Arcara denied Paul Ceglia's request to delay Facebook's access to his emails so he could object on privacy grounds. It was the latest in a series of court rulings that have gone Facebook's way as the Palo-Alto, Calif.-based company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, aggressively defend against Ceglia's claims that Zuckerberg signed away half of Facebook before it got off the ground."

The article goes on to discuss a statement made by Ceglia's attorney, "When a judge on Friday refused to stay the entire order, Ceglia sought Monday to protect just his email accounts.

"In today's world, people commonly discuss their most private and important matters by email," his attorney, Jeffrey Lake, wrote. "As such, allowing defendants' experts to search though and read all of Ceglia's emails since 2003 undoubtedly will give them a view of matters far outside the scope of this litigation and far inside Ceglia's private life, a view to which no one is entitled and that is protected from government prying by the most sacred components of the Constitution."

As the article further states, "Facebook and Zuckerberg will soon move to dismiss the lawsuit based on "the now-overwhelming evidence that Ceglia appears to have destroyed critical electronic documents and is perpetrating a large-scale fraud," Snyder, of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York, wrote in last week's filing."