NSA phone tapping: want to make $1000 and send a message?

I am a law student. I am interested in suing my phone company for giving my records to the federal government.

I learned that under the 1986 Stored Communications Act, can recover a minimum $1,000 for each violation.

I have built a wikipage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Travb/Suing_phone_companies_for_handing_over_phone_records

I welcome you all to contribute any information you have on this wikipedia page. Currently I am interested in suing my phone company in small claims court. I am wondering if this is possible.

I ask you to please make all general comments not here, but on the discussion board at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Travb/Suing_phone_companies_for_handing_over_phone_records

Simply click "edit" to leave your comments, there is no registration requirement.

the penalty is a MINIMUM of $1000. I need at least $100,000 to make it through the next 2 1/5 years of the BushCo train wreck.

Better posted in General Discission forum, not LBN.

Glad to see you ehre on DU! :hi:

Form letter for suing phone companies, make $1000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Travb/Suing_phone_companies_for_handing_over_phone_records

"The court may assess as damages in a civil action under this section the sum of the actual damages suffered by the plaintiff and any profits made by the violator as a result of the violation, but in no case shall a person entitled to recover receive less than the sum of $1,000. If the violation is willful or intentional, the court may assess punitive damages. In the case of a successful action to enforce liability under this section, the court may assess the costs of the action, together with reasonable attorney fees determined by the court." (18 U.S.C. § 2707(c) damages)

In otherwords, you can sue in civil court, not federal court.

Hopefully SBC settles the case out of court, I send a message (which I will advertise across the internet for thousands of people to repeat), and I make $1000. Everyone wins, except for the phone carriers who handed over this information illegally to the NSA.