Re: intercept student emails without their notification or consent
Yes. Absolutely.
When asking for damages you ask for a large amount - this is not recovering a loss, this is punishment for an entity taking something they had no right to do.
You can't imprison a company, and the only thing the company as a whole cares about is money.
If found to have caused the damage, the the judges hearing the case will decide how much is due - if anything.
The judges are permitted to say "Yes, you breached the contract and damaged the plaintiff. The sum of damages is zero and costs are not awarded."
- This is rare as it's basically telling the plaintiff that they shouldn't have bothered with legal action over something trivial, and lawyers are supposed to dissuade clients from doing that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
