Alberto Gutierrez v. the State of Texas

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• explaining that there must be a causal connection between the protected speech and the adverse action.
• filing a grievance is constitutionally protected activity and will support a retaliation claim
• \[A] plaintiff asserting First Amendment retaliation must allege some sort of harm. . . .\
• “[Plaintiff] has sufficiently alleged . . . participation in protected activity: the use of the prison grievance system . . . .”
• finding “sentence of three weeks in keeplock” constituted adverse action
• use of the prison grievance system constitutes protected activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).