Snapchat Demands Gag Purchase Against Ousted Founder

Snapchat has requested a government judge for a short-term gag purchase against ousted creator Reggie Brownish, who statements he came up with the idea for the "disappearing messages" app while while participating college with co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.

Brown is currently suing Snapchat and its two co-founders for a third of the organization, which supposedly has been tendered purchase offers of as high as $4 billion dollars. Brownish statements he was packed out of any share in Snapchat by Spiegel and Murphy when they supposedly went behind his back and created a organization without giving him any value in it.

The startup's attorneys registered the movement last Saturday with the California's Main Region Court, claiming that Brownish had divulged to the press personal details associated with the court action secured under purchase from the judge.

Specifically, the Snapchat movement mentioned buildup video clips from the situation released by Company Expert last month.

"On December2, 2013, after recurring queries, complaintant's advice lastly confessed that they had intentionally provided members of the press with buildup statement that Snapchat had specific as 'Confidential' under the Safety Order joined in this situation. ... Complaintant and his advice strongly stated they had a right to make such disclosures—despite the opposite terms of the Safety Order—because they unilaterally (and wrongly) identified that Snapchat had waived its privileges under the Safety Order," according to the movement, a duplicate of which was already released Thursday by TechCrunch.

Snapchat's attorney suggested that a short-term discipline purchase against Brownish was necessary to avoid him from divulging more secured details from the situation, such as "substantial amounts of from the commercial perspective delicate and personal details ... such as among other things highly personal financial and investment details related to Snapchat's business, delicate details regarding Snapchat's strategic plans, and personal, personal emails of individual third events topic to privileges of comfort under the Florida Structure."

The dripping of that details could result in "great or permanent injury to Snapchat," the startup's attorneys suggested.

Spiegel, now the CEO of Snapchat, and Murphy have supposedly tried to negotiate with Brownish for a significant sum but are obviously reluctant to give him the amount of value he's requested for. Spiegel supposedly maintains a 60 % share in Snapchat and Murphy operates 40 %.