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PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Applicable to First Amendment Compensatory Damages
Loaded on June 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2003, page 32
PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Applicable To First Amendment Compensatory Damages A federal district court in New York has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) prohibition against seeking damages for mental or emotional injury without a showing of physical injury does not apply to First Amendment violations nor ...
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