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inlawrev-3983	Bacharach, Robert; Entzeroth, Lyn	Judicial Advocacy in Pro Se Litigation: A Return to Neutrality	2009	28	.pdf	application/pdf	14649	711	59	Two important components of this effort were (1) the requirement of administrative exhaustion of claims^^ and (2) restrictions on inmates' eligibility for pauper status.^^ The PLRA requires inmates to exhaust available administrative remedies before suing under federal law based on conditions within the prison.^^ The exhaustion provision creates tension with twenty-four years of precedent, originating in Haines v. KemerJ^ in which federal courts had struggled to identify the causes of action encompassed in many prisoner complaints. ''^ Federal courts have long discarded the ancient requirement for a litigant to identify his legal theories in the complaint.^^ A RETURN TO NEUTRALITY 23 courts acknowledged the extraordinarily liberal pleading standard articulated in Conley, federal courts also: (1) interjected a requirement that the claimant have a 'reasonably founded hope that the [discovery] process [would] reveal relevant evidence' to support [the] claim ;^^ (2) decHned to assume facts not alleged;^^ (3) rejected allegations in a complaint that were regarded as conclusory or conjectural;^^ and (4) emphasized that Rule 8 requires that the 'plain statement' possess enough heft to 'sho[w] that the pleader is entitled to relief.	cache/inlawrev-3983.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3983.txt