Francisco Franco v. Walter Kelly, Lt. Moscicki and Officer Higley

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• holding that retaliation for cooperating with an administrative investigation of alleged incidents of prisoner abuse implicated the petitioner’s First Amendment rights
• holding that plaintiff stated a retaliation claim where plaintiff alleged prison officials intentionally filed false disciplinary charges against him in retaliation for participating in state investigation into inmate abuse
• recognizing retaliation for prisoner’s cooperation with a state administrative investigation of abuse of another inmate “implicated [a prisoner’s] broader right to petition government for redress of grievances”
• recognizing a claim for failure to conduct a proper investigation in the context of alleged retaliation
• finding that prisoner stated a claim based on false disciplinary charges against him in retaliation for cooperation with an investigation into inmate abuse
• noting that documents sworn under penalty of perjury may suffice for summary judgment purposes even if they do not meet all of the formal requirements of a notarized affidavit

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