Also, the court initially issued an order on December 22, 2010 denying the petitionforrehearing en banc, but that order was withdrawn the very next day without explanation.
As the Los Angeles Times reported this afternoon, the Winklevoss twins filed a PetitionforRehearing today, asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal to reconsider its decision denying their request to re-open their lawsuit against Facebook.
But although his membership on the initial panel entitled him to vote on the rehearingpetition and to sit on the en banc panel had rehearing en banc been granted, his senior status disqualified him from actually voting on the petitionforrehearing en banc.