The following excerpt is from Griffin v. Zurbano, Case No.: 16-CV-2715-JLS-WVG (S.D. Cal. 2019):
To maintain a claim of retaliation pursuant to the First Amendment, a prisoner must show that "(1) ... a state actor took some adverse action against [him] (2) because of (3) that prisoner's protected conduct, and that such action (4) chilled the inmate's exercise of his First Amendment rights, and (5) the action did not reasonably advance a legitimate
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correctional goal." Rhodes v. Robinson, 408 F.3d 559, 567-68 (9th Cir. 2005).
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