What are the elements of a civil rights claim in a prison context?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Guess v. Lopez, No. 2:13-cv-2652 AC P (E.D. Cal. 2014):
prison context has five elements: "(1) [a]n assertion that a state actor took some adverse action against an inmate (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 correctional goal." Rhodes v. Robinson, 408 F.3d 559, 567-68 (9th Cir. 2005).
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