article_snippet.sent: Facebook has two days to release all emails to a defense lawyer whose client has fled from criminal charges that whose client falsely claimed a majority ownership in the social media giant.
article_snippet.sent: The documents requested include details relating to a contract with Paul Ceglia during an 18-month stretch beginning in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: On Friday, U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick told Facebook Inc. and owner Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Inc. and owner Mark Zuckerberg have until Monday to relinquish the information that was requested by Paul Ceglia's lawyer, Robert Ross Fogg.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Zuckerberg must release documents and electronic correspondence to a defense lawyer whose client has fled from criminal charges that whose client falsely claimed a majority ownership in the social media giant .
article_snippet.sent: Federal prosecutors had urged U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick not to force Facebook and Zuckerberg to turn over the documents, saying doing so would 'reward Paul Ceglia's flouting of the judicial process while unreasonably drawing on the resources of the government and the authority of the court.'
article_snippet.sent: The criminal case against Paul Ceglia was brought after a judge threw out a judge 2010 civil lawsuit claiming that a judge gave Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University at the time, $1,000 in startup money in exchange for 50 percent of the future company.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors said a forensic analysis of Mark Zuckerberg computers and Harvard's email archive determined Paul Ceglia had altered an unrelated software development contract Mark Zuckerberg signed with Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 and falsified emails to make Mark Zuckerberg appear Mark Zuckerberg had promised Mark Zuckerberg a half-share of Facebook.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Zuckerberg has said Mark Zuckerberg didn't come up with the idea for Facebook until months after Mark Zuckerberg responded to Paul Ceglia's online help-wanted ad and signed a contract agreeing to create some software for Mark Zuckerberg.
article_snippet.sent: A lawyer for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday on the judge's order.
highlights_snippet.sent: Paul Ceglia said Mark Zuckerberg has two days to hand over all relevant emails .
  