Woman sues Match.com for $10 million

[TheMadMonk]

246. Or one of several bars in a nightclub district.

Or the workplace, or the Starbucks around the corner, or the post office. There are thousands of ways for one person's path to cross that of another, some are formal or informal introductions, some are commercial introductions, some are chance meetings. In some cultures it's a vocation. Should every matchmaker, babushka and interferring old aunt now be held responsible for every bad marriage they organised? Every abuse? Every death?

Or what if they'd married, separated, and then he took to her with knife and boot? When exactly should match.com's "responsibility" for bringing them together end?

Of course if there were some evidence of an actual egregious error of judgement or failure in their duty of care things would be different, but there's nothing to point in that direction, and fishing expeditions are rarely permitted by judges.

Like I said elsewhere, she might have had a case if the attack had come during the dating process or in the immediate aftermath, but not several months later.

What of the failure of the police to warn all past female contacts of the attacker when he finally did do something to put himself on ANYONES RADAR, after all they were in a much better position to know that he might be a danger to others.

Or perhaps you think Match.com should be constantly reviewing news articles, court record, etc. for any mentions of past or current clients on the off chance one of them loses the plot and might then start targeting clients they'd been introduced to.

Match.com may not have done every possible "right" thing, but nor did they do anything wrong. And from the information available, there is not as single bloody thing that Match.com could have done differently, to have effected a different result four months later, no matter what questions they might have asked or what records they trawled through.

To go them, just because they are there, casually (but not demonstrably causally) connected and have the deepest pockets, and SOMEONE needs to pay her medical bills speaks to a fundamentally broken underlying system. See my post 243