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Administrative Exhaustion Requirements Not Retroactive

The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), which requires prisoners to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit in federal court do not apply to cases pending on April 24, 1996, when the PLRA was signed into law, creating the exhaustion requirement. This case ...

 

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