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Those damages are enumerated on pages 50-52. Remember, "damages" is being used in a legal sense here -- for a non-lawyer, you can interpret it more like "a dollar value on something someone did that was wrong". This is more broad than the colloquial use of the word.

Sometimes damages are statutory, i.e. they have a fixed dollar amount written right into the law. This lawsuit references one such law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1203



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