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Eharmony Class Certified Despite Promised Gay Site Legal Pad
"Now that we entering the same-sex-matching market,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we fail to see what the [California] plaintiffs could achieve through further litigation."
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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Oh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I don't want to do it anymore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],'" said Konecky,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of San Francisco's Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky.
According to the terms of the New Jersey settlement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], eHarmony will implement the site - still not live yet - by March 31 and will keep it up for at least two years.
Konecky said he's hopeful that, with Chaney's class certification ruling,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], eHarmony will agree to an injunction in California.
Robert Freitas, a partner at Orrick,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Herrington Sutcliffe who represents eHarmony in California, was unavailable for comment Wednesday afternoon.
The issue of damages also remains, Konecky said.
Each plaintiff could potentially collect the minimum statutory amount of $4,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 under the state's Unruh Civil Rights Act, a possibility that eHarmony emphasized to Chaney when arguing against class certification,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], saying that with a high-end estimate of 546,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 single gay,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], lesbian and bisexual people in the state,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the total damage award could reach nearly $2.2 billion. Chaney said that amount was inflated,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], since the plaintiffs are only asking for damages for the subclass of people who actually tried to use the site.
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In a hearing Thursday before Chaney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], both sides agreed to enter mediation with a yet-to-be-determined private judge.
"If we make a deal, we make a deal,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Freitas said. "They're not entitled to any money unless there's been a violation of the law,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and we don't believe there's been a violation of the law."
Konecky said that Chaney's ruling on class certification created a good opportunity for the parties to "get together." Asked whether he thought a settlement would include some kind of payout from eHarmony,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he said that "there is a monetary element to the case,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the first thing that needs to be addressed before anything else is to make sure there's a lasting commitment by eHarmony [to keep the new Web site]."
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