Civil Litigation,
Criminal,
Civil Rights
Apr. 26, 2019
Lies, anger and false equivalence in dating platform fraud
I argued in a recent law review article that lying on dating apps or websites about a fact material to another person’s decision to have sex amounts to fraud and calls for a legal remedy.
Irina D. Manta
Professor
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
Irina is associate dean for research and faculty development, professor of law, and founding director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law (CIPL) at Hofstra.
I recently argued in an article titled "Tinder Lies," which appeared in the Wake Forest Law Review, that lying on dating apps or websites about a fact material to another person's decision to have sex amounts to fraud and calls for a legal remedy. I proposed a regime that would enable victims of such sexual fraud to obtain in small claims court statutory damages of several thousand dollars, the exact amount pegged at what would keep the cases in small claims court in ...
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