Jones v. Bock

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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).