Mark Mitchell v. Martin F. Horn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) requires a “less-than-significant-but-more-than- de minimis physical injury as a predicate to allowing the successful pleading of an emotional injury”
• holding that “several months in disciplinary confinement would deter a reasonably firm prisoner from exercising his First Amendment rights”
• holding that prisoner’s allegation that he was falsely charged with misconducts in retaliation for filing complaints against a correctional officer sufficiently alleged a retaliation claim
• holding that prisoner’s allegations that he was falsely charged with misconducts in retaliation for filing complaints against a correctional officer sufficiently alleged a retaliation claim
• concluding that “several months in disciplinary confinement would deter a reasonably firm prisoner from exercising [their] First Amendment rights”
• holding that exhaustion may be excused if prison officials take affirmative steps to prevent use of grievance procedure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).