Mark Zuckerberg Lawsuit

Mark Zuckerberg, a Computer Programmer and a Philanthropist, is currently 32 years old. He is the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, and the Co-Founder of the company Facebook. His Net Worth currently is $57.6 Billion according to Forbes. Recently, Zuckerberg filed 8 “quiet title” lawsuits against the residents of Kauai to force them to sell their land, but he dropped later. He purchased about $100 Million of land, but because of the Kuleana Act of 1850 many residents still owned parcels of land within Zuckerberg’s. He tried buying the land off of them, but many refused to sell. This is not the first time Zuckerberg has been caught up with the law. Back in 2004, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss sued Zuckerberg because Zuckerberg allegedly stole their idea. The Winklevoss twins and Zuckerberg had a verbal contract hiring Zuckerberg to partner up with them to create a site called HarvardConnection. February of 2008, the lawsuit was settled with ConnectU (originally HarvardConnection) attaining 1,253,326 shares and $20 million in cash (Ben Parr). But one month later, the Winklevoss twins filed another lawsuit stating that they were being deceived about the true value of Facebook stock. Eduardo

After all of the controversy about him filing for the lawsuits, Zuckerberg announced that he bought the land for the better good of the Hawaiians. He was going to give money to the Hawaiians that didn’t know about the parcels that they owned, but for the Hawaiians that knew about their land, he wasn’t going to kick anyone off of the land. According to Zuckerberg on a post on his Facebook page, he stated, “We've worked with the folks who actually live on the land already. They're choosing to work with us and no one is being forced to leave. The purpose of the quiet title is to identify people who aren't living on the land and may not even be aware they're part