Legal Opinion
Chang v. Winklevoss
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 24, 2019No. AC 18-P-329PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKinder, J.
*203 *207 In this case we examine the dismissal of contract and tort-based claims brought by software developer Wayne Chang against brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the creators of ConnectU, Inc. (ConnectU), a social networking website that was a competitor to The Facebook, Inc. (Facebook). This action was filed following the settlement of protracted multistate litigation between Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and the Winklevoss brothers, Zuckerberg's pre-Facebook collaborators. Chang's complaint alleged that he was entitled to a share of the proceeds of the settlement between the…
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