Al-Amin v. Warden Hugh Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in absence of physical injury, recovery of compensatory and punitive damages by prisoner is barred under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e)
• holding that in absence of physical injury, recovery of compensatory and punitive damages by prisoner is barred under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e)
• explaining that, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, prisoners cannot receive compensatory or punitive damages in the absence of a physical injury
• stating that a contrary holding would give talismanic importance to a prisoner’s pleading or not pleading of mental or emotional injury and lead to illogical results
• noting that Harris I “did not distinguish between cases in which a prisoner pleads a ‘mental or emotional injury’ and those where a prisoner does not so plead”
• noting Harris I “did not distinguish between cases in which a prisoner pleads a ‘mental or emotional injury’ and those where a prisoner does not so plead”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).