I smell a good and profitable lawsuit here.
I don't. In order to have a lawsuit you have to have damages, and the odds of winning that suit are slim at best, so you're going to have a lot of money out of pocket to even get started, which you will never recoup.
But it's easy to puff up and talk about suing the crap out of everyone involved when you're on the net. The real world doesn't work like that.
Saying there are no damages when it has not all played out is a little premature, is it not?
I see where the "repairmans " company might want to make a settlement to not persue further action. You know the threat of bad PR goes along way.
As has been posted in different ways above: A college dorm room isn't the same as a private apartment. The OP needs to check into just what conditions he agreed on when he moved in. Dorms are often a trade off. The student gets the convenience of handy laundry facilities and cafeterias, but the intrusion of resident assistant's and other petty BS. This is why older students often move off campus.
I thought lawyers were called sleazy for these kind of tactics?
Tell the college they were given to you by your minority gay lover while on a harrassment raid at a local gun range to protest the use of weapons, on the way back from protesting a Tea Party rally while driving your new Govt Motors Volt and singing give peace a chance, and that you see them a trophy and a statement against firearms and educational material to inform your fellow students as to how many evil types of guns there are in the hands of those people known as Tea Partiers that are clinging to their guns and religion.
Also inform them if they search your room again you will stage a sit in protest in front of the student union about the harassment from the establishment and "The Man", while wearing your tie-dye, beads, Ho Chi Minh sandals, and all the while unbathed for about 2 weeks.
Was this at Franciscan U?
Yes it was. My issue is not with them searching my room, they have that right. When I signed the various documents, I had to forgo my privacy in that aspect. My issue is with the repairman being in my desk when not related to fixing my phone, with the casings being confiscated, and with the BS "it's against the law" catch-phrase. Essentially, what I want the end-result to be is my casings being returned, and the ability to display them in my room, and possibly something relating to the repairman being in my desk, but I don't know what the policy is on that. I'll check.
Like I said, have you checked to make sure that nothing else of value is MISSING from your desk? Like the $100 bill you had in there? I keep one in mine, don't you?
Or the 14" long silicone sex toy
Were it me I'd be making a stink about ALL of my missing property, not just the casings...
I appreciate the advice, but I have no desire to lie to get anyone in trouble. I prefer to let the truth speak for itself.