Phone Companies At Risk
Orin Kerr, a former federal prosecutor and assistant professor at George Washington University, said his reading of the relevant statutes put the phone companies at risk for at least $1,000 per person whose records they disclosed without a court order.
‘This is not a happy day for the general counsels’ of the phone companies, he said. ‘If you have a class action involving 10 million Americans, that’s 10 million times $1,000 — that’s 10 billion.’