Case Name: Joe Leonard BELL, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee v. Danny BURL, Warden, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as D. Burl), Defendant Jeremy Andrews, Major, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as Jermy C. Andrews), Defendant-Appellant Curtis L. Rolfe, III, Disciplinary Hearing Officer, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC, Defendant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-07-01
Citations: 605 F. App'x 593
Docket Number: No. 14-3285
Parties: Joe Leonard BELL, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee v. Danny BURL, Warden, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as D. Burl), Defendant Jeremy Andrews, Major, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as Jermy C. Andrews), Defendant-Appellant Curtis L. Rolfe, III, Disciplinary Hearing Officer, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC, Defendant.
Judges: Before SHEPHERD, BYE, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 605
Pages: 593–594

Head Matter:
Joe Leonard BELL, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee v. Danny BURL, Warden, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as D. Burl), Defendant Jeremy Andrews, Major, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC (originally named as Jermy C. Andrews), Defendant-Appellant Curtis L. Rolfe, III, Disciplinary Hearing Officer, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC, Defendant.
No. 14-3285.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: May 20, 2015.
Filed: July 1, 2015.
Joe Leonard Bell, Jr., Little Rock, AR, pro se.
Gary L. Sullivan, Attorney General’s Office, Little Rock, AR, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before SHEPHERD, BYE, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Arkansas inmate Joe Bell, Jr. brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming, as relevant to this appeal, that defendant Jeremy Andrews, a correctional officer at the facility where Bell was imprisoned, retaliated against Bell for exercising his constitutional rights. Andrews moved for summary judgment, based in part on qualified immunity. The district court denied the motion, and Andrews appeals.
Having confined our review, as we must, to issues of law, see Stoner v. Watlingten, 735 F.3d 799, 802 (8th Cir.2013) (de novo review); Robbins v. Becker, 715 F.3d 691, 693 (8th Cir.2013) (jurisdiction to review denial of qualified immunity exists only to extent that denial turns on issue of law), we conclude that the court properly denied the motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity.
A § 1983 retaliation claim requires the plaintiff to "show (1) he engaged in a protected activity, (2) the government official took adverse action against him that would chill a person of ordinary firmness from continuing the activity, and (3) the adverse action was motivated at least in part by the exercise of the protected activity." Spencer v. Jackson Cnty., 738 F.3d 907, 911 (8th Cir.2013) (quotation omitted). "The retaliatory conduct itself need not be a constitutional violation; the violation is acting in retaliation for the exercise of a constitutionally protected right." Id. (quotation omitted). We find no legal error in the district court's conclusion that Bell's reassignment to the hoe squad, after he had successfully contested prison-disciplinary charges initiated by Andrews, amounted to a constitutional violation that was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation. See id. (worsening inmate's working conditions may constitute adverse action); Dible v. Scholl, 506 F.3d 1106, 1111 (8th Cir.2007) (court has broad view of what makes "clearly established law" for purposes of qualified immunity). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. 47B.
. The Honorable D.P. Marshall, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable J. Thomas Ray, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.