Earnest Bell, Jr. v. Robert Johnson, Mark Stimpson Allen Blatter

OPINION

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

The Appellant Earnest Bell, Jr., a former inmate at the State Prison for Southern Michigan in Jackson (“Jackson”), appeals the district court’s grant of judgment as a matter of law to Defendants-Appel-lees, Alan Blatter and Mark Stimpson, following the presentation of plaintiffs casein-chief in a jury trial. Bell’s § 1983 claim alleged that Blatter and Stimpson, who are both prison guards at Jackson, shook down his cell and confiscated his legal papers and medical diet snacks in retaliation for a civil rights lawsuit filed by Bell while he was an inmate at Jackson.…