(DOWNLOAD) "Siggers-El v. Barlow" by United States Court of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Siggers-El v. Barlow
- Author : United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 24, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Plaintiff Darrell Siggers-El, a prisoner in Michigans correctional system, brought this claim against his resident unit manager (RUM), Defendant David Barlow, in which he alleged that the Defendant transferred him to another prison in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights when he complained to the Defendants supervisors that the Defendant had failed to authorize disbursements of money from the Plaintiffs prison account to pay his lawyer to review his appellate brief and file and to meet with him concerning his criminal conviction. The Defendant moved for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity, arguing that it was not clearly established that 1) a prisoner engages in protected conduct when he complains about a prison officers failure to perform his duties to the officers supervisor, and 2) a transfer in retaliation for engaging in such conduct constitutes an adverse action. The district court denied the Defendants motion. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.