Bird

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

KEITH PAUL BIRD, No. 23-2664 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 2:20-cv-02093-

ART-NJK

v.

JAMES DZURENDA; HAROLD

WICKHAM; BRIAN WILLIAMS OPINION

Sr.; JULIE MATOUSCK;

MONIQUE HUBBARD-PICKETT;

JOHNATHON BINDER; THOMAS;

ALEXIS LOZANO; PARYGA;

ATHERTON; WILLIE CLAYTON;

ENNIS; ENNIS-WRIGHT; JULIE

WILLIAMS, (Matousek),

Defendants - Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Anne R. Traum, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 9, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed March 13, 2025 Before: Ronald M. Gould and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges, and J. Michael Seabright, District Judge. *

Opinion by Judge Bumatay

SUMMARY **

Prisoner Civil Rights

The panel reversed the district court’s denial of qualified immunity to state prison guards in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought by Nevada state prisoner Keith Bird alleging that they violated his First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances when they threatened him and confiscated his property after he complained about concerns with his…