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Failure to Timely Assert Affirmative Defense in Responsive Pleading Constitutes Waiver

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on April 8, 2015 that an Ohio federal district court did not abuse its discretion by finding prison officials had waived their qualified immunity defense in a prisoner’s civil rights action.

The lawsuit was filed by John Henricks, incarcerated at Ohio’s Pickaway Correctional ...

 

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