<i>The plaintiffs are seeking payouts for millions of Gmail users. The financial damages would amount to $100 per day of each day of violation for every individual who sent or received an email message using Google Apps for Education during a two-year period beginning in May 2011.</i><p>So assuming at least 1 million users, they are seeking:<p>1,000,000 users * $100 per user * 365 days per year * 2 years = ~ $73 billion in damages.<p>I'm not commenting on whether data-mining on Google's part was right or wrong, but why isn't there any limit to the amount that companies can be sued for?<p>It seems impractical for the people suing to sue for around 73 billion dollars when the product/service is essentially free.