United States Ninth Circuit

Procedure used by a magistrate deprived a pro se prisoner litigant of fair notice. The Prison Litigation Reform Act exhaustion requirement is not a pleading requirement in a prisoner's equal protection claim, but is a defense that must be raised and proved by defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2001
• Decided 09/23/2002
• Published 09/23/2002

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before BRIGHT,B. FLETCHER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Grace K. Won,Farella Braun & Martel LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Williams, Paul A. Bernardino, Deputy Attorneys General, Sacramento, California, for the defendants-appellees.