Judge delays decision on Facebook lawsuit

A Boston federal judge delayed his ruling on whether to throw out a lawsuit brought against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg by two former Harvard classmates. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are twins and founders of the site ConnectU, have accused the Facebook founder of stealing their idea, and are suing him for fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.

The twins now have until August 8th to provide details and substantiation of their allegations. Facebook issued this statement:

"We continue to disagree with the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole any ideas or code to build Facebook. We intend to honor the judge's request not to comment further in the media and will continue to vigorously defend this case in court."

It's hard to imagine that the Winklevoss brothers will get what they're asking for: control of Facebook, and the judge essentially suggested that they weren't even trying for that. They just want a settlement.

This will be an interesting case to follow, but so far it doesn't look like there is any substantive evidence that Zuckerberg broke the law.