On March 3, 2006 in the 9th Federal Court in Atlanta, Judge Clarence Cooper issued a TRO against the International Marriage Brokers Regulation Act on behalf of the plaintiff, European Connections (www.russianladies.com) To read the complaint, the motion brief, the TRO hearing transcript and Judge Cooper’s extended Order, click here: http://www.russianladies.com/imbra.cfm. The hearing for permanent injunction, which would send IMBRA back to the bottom of the legislative agenda in Washington (unless the government appeals), will be held March 20, 2006, again in front of Judge Cooper.
Based on Judge Cooper’s definitive response to European Connections’ TRO request, the chances for a permanent injunction appear to be favorable. At the initial hearing the government’s attorney stated that he will present absolute proof that male clients of the large domestic dating sites are far less abusive to women than those of international dating sites (IMB’s). It will be very interesting indeed to witness how the government’s attorney will torture reality in order to prove this. By the way, it’s important to understand that IMBRA is not directed at clients of IMB’s, but rather is solely directed at the IMB’s themselves.
I just received a letter from fiance.com citing that law as a reason they could not verify a suspicious profile they had just listed. I had contacted fiance.com management in reference to a just listed profile from Lugansk (Gosh, hard to believe there could be anything questionable coming out of "Lugansk") to let them know the same lady had just been listed on another site as being from Kharkov.
Being the good samaritan that I am, I sent her address to fiance.com so they could compare it. You see unlike fiance.com, the other website I belong to actually has a button you can click to have the contact info emailed to you automatically, on-the-spot.
Hhmmm, I just checked and that Lugansk profile I questioned has mysteriously disappeared from fiance.com Hmmmm.....and it was listed by an affiliate agency too. Ah-ha, Jeepers! we all know what a swell bunch of stand-up fellas those affiliates are, they wouldn't do anything that wasn't on the up and up would they?
Yes, yes, I'm sure there might be a couple of you cynics on this forum who will suggest that just maybe those affiliates might not be entirely trustworthy...I suppose you're the same people who will tell me there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.
By the way, I thought fiance.com was a non-US company and the new law....which really isn't a new law wouldn't apply to them anyway?