Messa v. Goord

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “Seventh Amendment does not guarantee a jury trial on factual disputes regarding administrative exhaustion under the PLRA”
• holding that a court, and not a jury, may decide “whether an inmate asserts a valid excuse for non-exhaustion”
• holding that there is no right to a jury trial on factual disputes regarding an inmate’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the PLRA
• stating that “the Seventh Amendment does not guarantee a jury trial on factual disputes regarding administrative exhaustion under the PLRA”
• stating that “the Seventh Amendment does not guarantee a jury trial on factual disputes regarding administrative exhaustion under the PLRA.”
• noting that “[t]he Seventh Amendment does not promise a jury trial on all issues that might, as a practical matter, finally dispose of a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).