Tighe v. Wall

The sole issue presented in this appeal is whether the district court erred in dismissing Thomas Tighe’s § 1983 claim alleging that prison officials retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment right to provide legal assistance to his fellow inmates. Because we conclude that the district court properly granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissed Tighe’s § 1983 claim, we affirm.

I

In October 1992, Thomas Tighe, then a state prisoner at Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport, Louisiana, was assigned to the position of “inmate counsel substitute.” ' In February…