Douglas

I. Background

Douglas’s complaint contains six claims that Defendants violated his First Amendment rights by interfering with his exercise of religion and his right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Each of the claims is based on a particular episode of alleged interference, but Douglas con- tends that all of the claims are part of a pattern of illegal behavior by Defendants. All of the alleged events occurred while Douglas was in the custody of the Sheriff’s Office, in either the Multnomah County Inverness Jail or the Multno- mah County Detention Center. Douglas’s allegations are as fol- lows.

First, Douglas alleges that on July 14, 2000, Deputy Gilson McLavain pulled down Douglas’s pants while he was pray- 1 For ease of reading, we address Douglas’s claims in chronological order. Douglas’s complaint numbers them differently. DOUGLAS v. NOELLE 6729 ing. Douglas filed a grievance against McLavain under the jail’s grievance procedures. He followed it “all the way up the chain of command” but received no relief.

Second, Douglas alleges that on May 19, 2001, he filed a grievance against Deputy James Harrington for making “very nasty…