mental pain

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Zwerner’s attorneys argued school administrators ignored pleas from staff members to search the boy for a gun and Zwerner sought damages to compensate for her post-traumatic stress disorder and physical and mental pain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

“I have learned over time that the mental pain is related to the inability to move.”

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2025

She wants a jury trial and unspecified compensatory damages; a financial judgment for mental pain, anguish and emotional distress; punitive and exemplary damages, and payment of legal fees.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

The men are asking for compensation for the “fear, humiliation, embarrassment, mental pain, suffering and inconvenience” they endured and punitive damages, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Brooklyn.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

This Griffith Gaunt was by no means deficient in physical courage; but he was instinctively disposed to run away from mental pain the moment he lost hope of driving it away from him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various