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Class action come lately in eHarmony spat?

By Richard Binder

Online dating service eHarmony may have thought its troubles over once it unveiled its same-sex only Web site as a result of a settlement with the New Jersey Attorney General, but a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has certified a statewide class action against the company for refusing to let users seek same-sex lifemates on the site.

The class includes ?all gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals who have been and/or are still denied?services offered to the public by eHarmony.com based on their sexual orientation.?  eHarmony says the New Jersey settlement renders the class action moot, but plaintiffs? attorney Joshua Konecky takes a different view.

?There needs to be an injunction that a California court can enforce that can prevent [eHarmony] from saying, ?Oh, I don?t want to do it anymore,?? said Konecky, of San Francisco?s Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).