Mercer v. Rodriquez

Opinion

DRANGINIS, J.

This appeal requires that we decide whether the trial court properly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear the plaintiffs federal claims because he failed to exhaust available administrative remedies as required by the federal Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e (a). Although we conclude that the plaintiff failed to exhaust available administrative remedies, we also conclude that his failure to exhaust such remedies did not deprive the court of subject matter jurisdiction. Nonetheless, we affirm the judgment of the trial court…