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Supreme Court· 1/22/2007

Jones v. Bock

Citations

  • 549 U.S. 199
  • 127 S. Ct. 910
  • 166 L. Ed. 2d 798
  • 2007 U.S. LEXIS 1325

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a prisoner’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies is an affirmative defense under the PLRA
  • stating that “it is the prison’s requirements, and not the PLRA, that define the boundaries of proper exhaustion”
  • noting that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) does not require plaintiffs to plead around affirmative defenses
  • stating that “it is the prison’s requirements, and not the PLRA, that define the boundaries of proper exhaustion”
  • stating that “it is the prison’s requirements, and not the PLRA, that define the boundaries of proper exhaustion”
  • reviewing the denial of an evidentiary hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction for abuse of discretion

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Judges: Roberts

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941 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

48 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Jones v. Bock

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