A Los Angeles entertainment executive who says she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Match.com filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking that the popular dating site start screening its members for sexual predators. 
 
 Attorney Mark L. Webb, who represents the woman identified in the lawsuit only as Jane Doe, said he will ask a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for a temporary injunction barring the site from signing up more members until his client’s demands are met. 
 
 “They are a very powerful and successful online dating service, and they have the means to do this,” Webb said. 
 
 Officials with Match.com could not be reached for comment late Wednesday. But in a statement to KABC-TV Channel 7 last week, officials that they provide safety tips on the website and warn members that they are responsible for screening the people they meet. 
 
 "While incidents like this one between individuals who meet on Match.com are extremely rare, it doesn't make them any less horrifying," the statement said. 
 
 Webb described his client as an Ivy League graduate who works in film and television. He said she met her alleged assailant last year at Urth Cafe in West Hollywood. He seemed charming and she agreed to see him again. After the second date, however, he allegedly followed her home and forced himself on her, Webb said. 
 
 "This horrific ordeal completely blindsided me because I had considered myself savvy about online dating safety," the woman said in a statement released through her attorney last week. "Things quickly turned into a nightmare, beyond my control." 
 
 After the man left, the woman went online and learned that he had been convicted of several counts of sexual battery. Charges are pending in the Match.com case, Webb said. 
 
 The attorney said his client wants Match.com to check members’ names against public sex offender registries. “It’s not a guarantee,” he said. “But don’t you think something is better than nothing?” 
 
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 -- Alexandra Zavis ||||| David Bateman, a partner at K&L Gates, which is based in Pittsburgh and has offices around the world, said the firm had no plans to drop the lawsuit against Mr. Elam. The suit seeks money damages, asserting that he infringed on the woman’s right to keep the sexually explicit videos private under federal copyright law. 
 
 He also said that the firm had no second thoughts about taking the woman’s case — which was one of the first civil lawsuits filed by the program. 
 
 “We are not able to comment on any decision by federal prosecutors,” Mr. Bateman said in an emailed response. “However, our civil case will proceed.” 
 
 The woman was a law student in California at the time of the incident. Authorities contend Mr. Elam began to harass her after they broke up. 
 
 A representative for Eileen M. Decker, the United States attorney in Los Angeles, offered no explanation for dropping the case except to say that the office had decided it could not meet its burden of proof at trial. 
 
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 Federal authorities began their investigation into Mr. Elam in 2013. Just two months ago, federal prosecutors notified the court that they intended to introduce evidence at trial that in 2012, Mr. Elam harassed and stalked another former girlfriend online. 
 
 Lawyers for Mr. Elam did not return requests for comment. 
 
 In recent years, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have earned a reputation for being particularly aggressive in pursuing cases against both former boyfriends and hackers selling unauthorized sexually explicit videos to websites. One notable case was the successful prosecution of Hunter Moore, who ran a now-defunct website that specialized in posting revenge porn videos that were stolen from people’s computers and posted without their permission. 
 
 The decision to drop the charges against Mr. Elam may illustrate the difficulties in pursuing such cases because they require a jury not to hold the victim partly responsible for creating the sexually explicit images in the first place and either sharing them with a former partner or storing them on a cellphone. 
 
 The woman, who was identified in the criminal case only by the initials N.A., would have had to testify at trial using her own name. 
 
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 While prosecutors may have faced hurdles in a criminal trial, a lawsuit has a lower burden of proof. 
 
 This year, a federal appeals court upheld a stay of the civil suit pending the outcome of the criminal case. Now that the criminal case is over, the stay will probably be lifted.
– A Los Angeles entertainment executive is suing an online dating site for failing to screen out a man who she says sexually assaulted her. The woman is seeking an injunction barring Match.com from signing members until it begins a process to filter out sex predators like her alleged attacker, who has a history of conviction for sexual battery, said her attorney. Match.com is "a very powerful and successful online dating service, and they have the means to do this,” the lawyer told the Los Angeles Times. Match.com officials said they provide safety tips on the website, and warn members that clients are responsible for screening their dates. In the LA executive's second date with a man she met on the site, he allegedly followed her home and attacked her. "This horrific ordeal completely blindsided me because I had considered myself savvy about online dating safety," the woman said in a statement. "Things quickly turned into a nightmare, beyond my control." She was stunned to discover in a subsequent Web search that the man had been convicted of several counts of sexual battery.