The Winklevoss Twins: It's Not Over Yet

The news that, despite earlier bravado, the Winklevoss twins were indeed not going to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal the adverse decision of the 9th Circuit on their entitlement to a bigger share of Facebook than the $65 million they had already been awarded was surely a big disappointment to a mainstream media and blogosphere that enjoy making fun of the twins' names, image, and appetite for even greater wealth than that to which they were born.  The disappointment, however, lasted less than a day.  On Thursday it was revealed that, armed with new counsel, the twins are asking a Massachusetts federal district judge for discovery under FRCP Rule 60 on whether Facebook suppressed relevant instant messages in which Mark Zuckerberg brags about duping them. If so, they will ask for their case to be reopened.  For those of you who can't get enough of this, here's last September's New Yorker article, The Face of Facebook, that revealed the existence of the instant messages.