Branham

MEMORANDUM

Robert Eugene Mitchell, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Bruce v. Ylst, 351 F.3d 1283, 1288 (9th Cir.2003). We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Although the defendants submitted evidence suggesting that Mitchell was expelled from the prison law library and that his legal materials were confiscated pursuant to a legitimate prison policy, Mitchell’s sworn declaration and deposition testimony indicate that the policy was not enforced against other inmates, and that it was only enforced against him in reprisal for filing law suits against prison guards. Viewed in the light most favorable to Mitchell, the evidence raises a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendants’ actions reasonably advanced a legitimate correctional goal. See id. at 1289-90 (reversing summary judgment where evidence suggested that enforcement of legitimate prison procedure may have been a cover or ruse to retaliate against an inmate…