On Tuesday afternoon, an army of lawyers will file into state court in Manhattan to argue over whether a judge should dismiss Facebook Inc.’s malicious prosecution lawsuit against four law firms and nine attorneys who once represented Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who famously, and very unsuccessfully, claimed to own 84 percent of the social media giant.

For the defendants, including lawyers at DLA Piper, Milberg, and former N.Y. attorney general Dennis Vacco, the past six weeks couldn’t have provided a worse backdrop for Tuesday’s hearing.

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