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Fifth Circuit: PLRA Exhaustion Requirement an Affirmative Defense
On July 5, 2007, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that failure to meet the PLRA’s exhaustion requirement is an affirmative defense and prisoners are not required to plead exhaustion in their complaints, nor can a district court of its own accord dismiss a complaint for failure to exhaust ...
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