Claude E. Woods v. Larry Smith

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• holding that an actionable claim for retaliation requires a retaliatory adverse act and causation
• holding that an actionable claim for retaliation requires a retaliatory adverse act and causation
• holding that an act “motivated by retaliation for the exercise of a constitutionally protected right is actionable, even if the act, when taken for a different reason, might have been legitimate”
• recognizing that “but for” causation “places a significant burden on the inmate”
• holding it is unconstitutional for a prison official to retaliate against an inmate for filing a grievance
• stating “[t]o state a claim, an inmate must allege the violation of a specific constitutional right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).