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They are committing a crime of false statement and perjury among others.
It is quite easy to prove, since to send the reports they have to sign legal documents with google.
The legal costs would all be at their expense if they lost. Which seems quite easy because everything is registered and perfectly documented in the Lumendatabase.
If you have also contacted them several times by sending emails or regular mail to inform them that their activity was illegal and they ignored it. If you have also sent them a good number of counter-notifications, the content has been restored and they have not filed a lawsuit in a California court to knock down the content again within the 10-day period that Google gives once the counter-notification is sent. Well it's done...
The standard US fine for false statement is $2,500 base. So this would be the base price for each falsely sent URL i guess. If the url that they removed generates bigger losses, it could be claimed on that compensation.
I also think that much more could be claimed for damaging reputation. Because as exposed in a leaked PDF from Google a few months ago about good practices and SEO, domains that receive many reports are demoted in search results, and may even be completely deindexed.
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