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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="10-4A-08" title_number="10" title_name="Evidence" subtitle_number="4A" subtitle_name="Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in § 10–4A–04(d) of this subtitle, a provider of electronic communication service, subscriber, or customer aggrieved by a knowing or intentional violation of this subtitle may recover appropriate relief in a civil action against the person or entity that engaged in the violation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In a civil action under this section, appropriate relief includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Appropriate preliminary and other equitable or declaratory relief;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Damages under subsection (c) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A reasonable attorney’s fee and other litigation costs reasonably incurred.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>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 $1,000.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A good faith reliance on any of the following is a complete defense to any civil or criminal action brought under this subtitle or any other State law:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A court warrant or order, a grand jury subpoena, a legislative authorization, or a statutory authorization; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A good faith determination that § 10–402(d) of this title permitted the conduct that is the subject of the action.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A civil action under this section shall be filed within 2 years after the day on which the claimant first discovered or had a reasonable opportunity to discover the violation.</text>
  </level>
</section>
