United States Sixth Circuit

District court correctly dismissed this suit, brought against an online adult dating service by one of its subscribers. Plaintiff failed to state a claim in alleging that the service is at fault for his sexual relationship with a minor and the harm that resulted from his arrest, notwithstanding that the service requires each subscriber to promise that he or she is at least eighteen years old.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/30/2008
• Published 12/30/2008

Judges

• Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge;  MERRITT and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Dean Boland, Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellant.  Gary J. Kaufman, Pro Hoc Vice, Kaufman Law Group, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Dean Boland, Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellant.  Gary J. Kaufman, Colin A. Hardacre, Dana S. Milmeister, Pro Hoc Vice, Kaufman Law Group, Los Angeles, California, Richard Marvin Kerger, Kerger & Hartman, Toledo, Ohio, for Appellees.  Michael B. Bressman, Vanderbilt Legal Clinic, Nashville, Tennessee, for Amici Curiae.