Van Alstyne v. Electronic Scriptorium, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the SCA includes statutory language making punitive damages recoverable even in the absence of proof of actual damages
• holding that the SCA includes statutory language making punitive damages recoverable even in the absence of proof of actual damages
• holding that statutory minimum damages cannot be awarded in the absence of proof of actual damages
• holding in the context of the SCA that “proof of actual damages is not required before an award of either punitive damages or attorney’s fees”
• holding the SCA permits a plaintiff to recover punitive damages without showing actual damages
• discussing jury award of $100,000 punitive damages where employer regularly accessed employee’s personal email account for over a year

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).