Garrido v. Coughlin

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• concluding that a “verbal confrontation” with a guard regarding the 3 guard’s “abusive treatment of another inmate” is not protected conduct
• holding that the inmate plaintiff was not engaged in protected conduct when he had a \verbal confrontation\ with a correctional officer
• distinguishing between an exercise of First Amendment rights and a mere \verbal confrontation\ with prison staff
• inmate’s “verbal confrontation” with correctional officer over 23 the “allegedly abusive treatment of another inmate” did not give rise to a First Amendment 24 retaliation claim
• “While there is a claim of retaliation here ..., it was not for exercise of [the plaintiff's] First Amendment rights; rather, the alleged retaliation arose out of a verbal confrontation.”
• “While there is a claim of retaliation here ..., it was not for exercise of [the plaintiff's] First Amendment rights; rather, the alleged retaliation arose out of a verbal confrontation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).