From USA Today:

A federal jury Thursday awarded a woman $434,000 in damages after she sued an Internet matchmaking service that introduced her to her abusive husband.

Hard to say whether a result like this is justified. It depends a lot on the particulars of the case. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if this case or a case like this winds up being the "woman spills coffee on herself" case of the '00s -- even if, as in the coffee case, the suit at least arguably wasn't frivolous and the action at least arguably justified by negligence on the company's part.

I was trying to explain this to my composition class the other day: "Look," I said, after hearing for the millionth time someone talking about how trial lawyers were blah-blah-blahing, "the court system isn't a lottery for the stupid or the careless. The courts are the means by which the rights of ordinary people like us are protected from huge corporations. The people who are trying to discredit the court system through all this talk about frivolous lawsuits are the very people who stand to benefit economically from a discredited court system. And we all stand to lose." You're being had, I screamed, the Republicans are making fools out of you, and that's how I got fired.