131635P.pdf   07/29/2015  James Solomon  v.  Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1635
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Beam, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner Civil Rights. For the court's prior opinion in 
   the matter, see Solomon v. Petray, 699 F.3d 1034 (8th Cir. 2012). 
   Defendants were not entitled to summary judgment based on qualified 
   immunity on plaintiff's claim that they arranged for local jail officials 
   to beat him in retaliation for a letter he wrote the district judge who 
   had sentenced him, as plaintiff alleged he had engaged in protected 
   expression, had suffered an adverse action and had pleaded sufficient 
   facts that would allow a reasonable jury to find a causal connection 
   between the expression and the adverse action; his claims against a Deputy 
   Marshal for striking him similarly alleged retaliation for a protected 
   activity and the Deputy Marshal was not entitled to qualified immunity on 
   that claim; defendant Jones was not entitled to qualified immunity on 
   plaintiff's conspiracy claim as there was evidence to support a jury's 
   reasonable inference that Jones entered into an agreement with local jail 
   authorities to deprive plaintiff of his constitutional right to be free 
   from excessive force.