BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lawyers for a man who claims he is entitled to 84 percent of Facebook argued Wednesday that the social- networking site’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, lives a transient life out of a duffel bag. Lawyers for Paul Ceglia, who claims a work-for-hire contract he signed with a 19-year-old Zuckerberg gives him control of the multibillion-dollar company, argued that the lawsuit should be tried in New York state court because of a 2004 Massachusetts court ruling in a separate case that said Zuckerberg was legally a resident of New York at that time.
“He was living the same sort of existence the evidence shows now, a sort of duffel-bag, apartment-to- apartment, transient life,” lawyer James Grable said.
Lawyers for Zuckerberg called the case — and Ceglia himself — a “fraud” and dismissed his claims as “harassment.” Dow Jones Newswires Mark Zuckerberg
