SAN FRANCISCO-it's the lawsuit that just wouldn't die.

Despite the strong and clear statement relayed by one of the country's top courts last week, the Winklevoss twins on the Court of appeal Monday asked to reconsider her order requiring that they accept a settlement on the creation of Facebook, the most popular social network of the world.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claimed initially that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook; They agreed to their lawsuit in 2008 in exchange for 20 million dollars in cash plus shares in the company.

The twins say that later she discovered the stock was worth less than claimed at the time, and they sought to have the deal destroyed.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss--the former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Zuckerberg--the argument that the twin savvy enough to understand what they were agreed to in 2008 they signed the agreement.

"At some point, disputes must come to an end," chief justice Alex Kozinksi wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel. "That point has now been achieved."

Not so fast, now claiming the lawyers.

Legal representatives for the Winklevosses have asked for a special 11-judge panel to consider their appeal, in the hope that the larger Panel finds things more in their favor.

"Or the appellants would be better off financially keeping the proceeds of the settlement instead of dissolution and deal with their lawsuit against Facebook a personal decision for them — not a Court of appeal — to create," their lawyers wrote.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were famous played by Armie Hammer in the social network, a Hollywood blockbuster that the events surrounding the creation of the 500-million-strong social network dramatized.

The original case came against Facebook in 2004, when the brothers claimed that Zuckerberg broke a verbal agreement with the plaintiffs ConnectU (originally called the Harvard connection). The twins alleged that Zuckerberg stole not only the code and the idea, he them jammed them so he could his site, thefacebook.com, first.

The suit was originally settled for $ 65 million in 2008, but the most recent lawsuit had claimed fraud for Facebook and Zuckerberg "not a more recent valuation of different Facebook stock volunteering." The settlement is now worth more than $ 160 million because of Facebook's more appreciation.

Facebook would not comment on the most recent Court movement, instead, tell FoxNews.com that "We the Ninth Circuit careful consideration of this matter to appreciate and are pleased that the Court in Facebook's favor."

Meanwhile, Facebook faces legal challenges on another front. Paul Ceglia, a businessman upstate New York, he claims that in 2003 a $ 1,000 investment in Facebook, which gave him the right to 50 percent made of what today is the 500 million user force powering social networks.

Facebook calls the emails--as well as Ceglia itself, and the whole thing--an utter fraud.

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