Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits have likewise recognized that inmates possess a First Amendment petition right to be free from retaliation for filing grievances. Herron v. Harrison, 203 F.3d 410, 414 (6th Cir. 2000) (recognizing claim where inmate alleged that prison officials “impermissibly retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment right to file grievances and petition the courts for redress”); Powers v. Snyder, 484 F.3d 929, 933 (7th Cir. 2007) (recognizing claim where inmate alleged he was retaliated against for “filing grievances against the prison” and noting “[s]uch retaliation violates a prisoner’s right, founded on the First Amendment, to petition government for the redress of grievances”); Dixon v. Brown, 38 F.3d 379, 379 (8th Cir. 1994) (<HOLDING>); Brodheim v. Cry, 584 F.3d 1262, 1266, 1269-72
holding that filing of a disciplinary charge becomes actionable if done in retaliation for the inmates filing of a grievance and stating that such conduct strikes at the heart of an inmates constitutional right to seek redress of grievances recognizing first amendment retaliation claim where official filed a disciplinary report following an inmates filing of a grievance holding that inmates allegation that guards destroyed his legal materials in retaliation for his filing of suits and grievances stated a cognizable first amendment claim recognizing right to petition for redress of grievances under established prison grievance system recognizing first amendment petition right where inmate alleged retaliation for filing grievances