Match.com Lawsuit Goes Back to Court
According to Fox LA, the case of Carole Markin against Match.com regarding her rape by a man she met on the site, is being sent back to court. In what is being hailed as a victory for online dating safety, Judge Stephen V. Wilson decided that dismissing the case entirely was not the best course of action. Carole Markin, 53, is seeking an injunction to stop Match.com from accepting new customers until they enact a screening process to block sexual-predators from using the site.
However, Robert Platt, lawyer for Match.com, says that Carole Markin has no legal grounds and little chance of winning. “She has offered no legal basis as to why she thinks she has the right to advise Match.com how to run its business,” Platt says. Although Match.com has agreed to being screening its members against a sexual-offender registry, but they say it could take months to implement. Stopping Match.com from accepting any new members until the process is enacted would likely cost the company millions of dollars.
While we agree that making online dating as safe as possible is extremely important for the industry, taking this kind of extreme action seems unnecessary and unhelpful. If women sued every bar that served a man who eventually took advantage of her in some way, there would be too many lawsuits a day to even count. Carole Markin certainly deserves compensation for her harrowing ordeal, but from her attacker, not the venue.
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