Robert L. Smith, Jr. v. Donal Campbell, Warden Janice Buchanan Kay Winkler

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inmates “cannot exercise [the right to file grievances] in a manner that violates legitimate prison regulations or penological objectives.”
• concluding that prison official’s comments about transfer establish causation because it was uncontroverted that the official was not the decisionmaker
• holding that prisoner’s filing of grievances against prison officials in a manner that violated legitimate prison regulations and objectives and in light of his aggressive attitudes and his attempts to intimidate staff members, was not protected activity
• holding that one of the defendants’ comments did not demonstrate a causal connection between plaintiffs filing of grievances and the decision to transfer plaintiff because it was uncontroverted that the defendant making the comment was not the decision-maker in the case
• noting that filing grievances in a way that violates legitimate prison regulations or attempts to intimidate staff members is not protected conduct
• finding that temporal proximity between protected conduct and adverse action was insufficient to establish a causal connection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).