Paul Ceglia, the man who claims to have helped launched Facebook, is continuing his legal tirade against its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Ceglia and Zuckerberg worked together while the latter was studying at Harvard. Zuckerberg did programming work for Ceglia.

When searching Ceglia's computer, e-mails were found that seemed to be work-in-progress versions of what Ceglia claimed was real. Over 200 fake e-mails were found, according to Facebook. Facebook called the case a "fraud" while describing Ceglia as a "criminal."

While Ceglia won't be allowed to question Mark Zuckerberg or search his computers, Ceglia's lawyers will be allowed to question Zuckerberg's experts on the findings. Ceglia was also found to be basing his case on fake e-mails, which featured incorrect time stamps. The e-mails mentioned thefacebook.com, which Zuckerberg said was not mentioned, as the social network did not exist at that point.

Other evidence against Celia was the fake aging of documents and ink that was only two years old. Celia claimed the documents dated back to 2003 - when Zuckerberg was a Harvard.

Ceglia claims to have offered Zuckerberg $1,000 in start-up funds in exchange for a 50 percent stake in thefacebook.com.

Ceglia's attorneys argued that their client should be allowed to question Zuckerberg's experts. On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio denied in part a motion by Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to stay discovery.

"The court recognized that Mr. Ceglia is entitled to certain discovery necessary to respond to the pending motions to dismiss. Specifically, Mr. Ceglia will obtain discovery of experts hired by the defendants and the opportunity to challenge their conclusions, some of which have already been contradicted by Mr. Ceglia's own experts. We are pleased that the judge has ruled that this discovery should proceed, and we are hopeful that once we have obtained and presented this information, the court will deny the defendants' motions to dismiss and allow the case to proceed to full discovery and an eventual trial," Ceglia's attorneys said.

Ceglia's attorneys have two months to submit his findings. Both parties will then be allowed to question each other.

Meanwhile, Facebook and Zuckerberg's attorneys remain pleased with the development of the proceedings.

"We are very pleased with today's ruling. The court denied Ceglia's request for broad discovery and continues to focus these proceedings solely on the question of Ceglia's criminal fraud," Orin Snyder, Zuckerberg's attorney, said.

(reported by Jonathan Charles, edited by Surojit Chatterjee)