Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, Georgia

Whether, where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, the defendant may nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the basis for a summary judgment motion, without amending or seeking to amend its answer to plead that affirmative defense, and whether a defendant may do so even if an amendment adding that affirmative defense would be barred by Rule 16(b)(4).