Exton resident Amro Elansari has had his request to reinstate his “class action” lawsuit against Tinder denied by a federal appeals court, writes Matt Miller for the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Elansari sued Tinder in July, claiming the company used fraud to get him to subscribe to its dating app.

In the largely hand-written complaint, he asserted that the app sends out “notifications saying 7 people like you” before offering a $15-a-month subscription to find out who those people are. He then claimed them all to be “fake, 3,000 miles away.”

His suit was first dismissed by a U.S. Eastern District judge, after which Elansari appealed his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. However, the circuit judges refused to revive his case.

They found that Elansari, who acted as his own lawyer, could not file a class action suit representing other Tinder subscribers, as he is not an attorney. They also concluded the maximum damages he could seek would be the amount he paid for the subscription, which is nowhere near the minimum $75,000 required to bring a civil case to federal court.

Read more about the lawsuit in the Harrisburg Patriot-News here.

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