Facebook CEO Says Lawsuit Motion is an Attempt to 'Harass' Him

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a motion to move a lawsuit against him to state court was devised to "burden and harass" him. Paul Ceglia, who claims to own 84% of Facebook, asked to move his lawsuit from federal to state court "under the pretext of obtaining ‘jurisdictional discovery’ into Zuckerberg’s private life," the CEO’s attorneys said yesterday on his behalf in court papers. According to a Bloomberg report, "Ceglia, 37, claimed in his June 30 lawsuit that Zuckerberg signed a contract in 2003 that entitles Ceglia to control what has become the world’s most popular Internet social-networking site. Ceglia sued in state court. Facebook’s lawyers moved the case to federal court, saying the men were from different states. Federal courts can hear cases involving parties from different states." "Mark Zuckerberg lives year-round in California and has made California his permanent home, as would be expected of the CEO of a major California-based company," the lawyers wrote, calling further discovery, or fact-gathering, unnecessary. "Critically, Ceglia does not identify what additional information discovery might uncover," they wrote. "California has been my permanent home" since before 2006, "and I intend to continue living and working here for the indefinite future," Zuckerberg said in yesterday’s filing.