NEW YORK--a judge Tuesday refused to throw a suit by two democratic political consultants who claim that the founders of the Huffington Post stole the idea for the website of news online on their part.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles e. Ramos dismissed a motion by lawyers for the media company to dismiss the trial, which means that the case will now probably be move to the phase of discovery of the assessment of the facts by the two parties.
Consultants Peter Daou and James Boyce continued in November 2010, alleging that they had initially find the plan for mixture of blogs by eminent contributors site, news and original content aggregation.
Daou and Boyce said they discussed their plans with Huffington Post co-founders Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer in 2004 and believed that they were partners. The two consultants claimed that they have been cut of the transaction after that raised co-founders of millions of dollars to launch and develop the site. They seek unspecified damages.
When the complaint was filed, Huffington and Lerer said that the claims were "pure fantasy."
AOL Inc. bought the Huffington Post of 315 million in February.
On Tuesday, AOL Huffington Post Media Group spokesman Mario Ruiz said in the statement that although the judge did step lay the claims of the plaintiffs as they had asked, "we remain convinced that we will be taking to prove that the trial has no merit."
An attorney for the plaintiffs, Partha P. Chattoraj, said that the defence team is grateful for the opportunity to make submissions to the judge.
"We look forward to continue with the discovery, as well as the Court has ordered,"he says. ".
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