eHarmony Settles, Will Link Sites
Saturday, 30. January 2010 - 11:59 am
© Elsie esq.
A number of sources (Mashable, Reuters, The San Francisco Chronicle) are reporting that eHarmony has settled (yet again) in a California lawsuit claiming anti-Gay descrimination at its dating website.
eHarmony first settled a class action lawsuit on the Gay issue in California in 2008 by agreeing to run a dating website for Gays. It called the site Compatable Partners. But the site was never acknowledged at or linked to from the heterosexual eHarmony site. And bisexuals had to pay subscriber fees at both sites if they wanted to look for both heterosexual and same-sex relationships. So a second class action suit was filed.
The settlement still has to be approved by a judge. That could happen on February 3rd. If the judge approves the settlement, eHarmony will link its Gay and its heterosexual dating sites. Gays will have access to both sites for one fee and eHarmony will pay out about half a million dollars to the 150 or so plantiffs in the suit. eHarmony will admit no wrong doing or liability under the settlement.