Can a prison officer retaliate against an inmate for exercising his First Amendment rights?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from McDaniel v. Daniels, No. 2:20-cv-00895-TLN-CKD (E.D. Cal. 2020):
Prison officials generally cannot retaliate against inmates for exercising First Amendment rights. Rizzo v. Dawson, 778 F.2d 527, 531 (9th Cir. 1985). Because a prisoner's First Amendment rights are necessarily curtailed, however, a successful retaliation claim requires a
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