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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALFRED YARBOROUGH,

Plaintiff,

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, etc.;

et al.,

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No. C 06-7311 SI (pr)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL 

Alfred Yarborough, an inmate at Centinela State Prison, filed this pro se civil rights

action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages and injunctive relief from Governor

Schwarzenegger and other unidentified defendants for allegedly unconstitutional conditions at

Centinela State Prison. 

The Northern District of California is not a proper venue for this action because it appears

that none of the defendants reside in this district and no event or omission giving rise to the

complaint occurred in this district. The only identified defendant resides in the Eastern District

of California. The events or omissions that gave rise to the complaint occurred at Centinela

State Prison in Imperial County, within the venue of the Southern District of California. Venue

therefore may be proper in the Eastern District or the Southern District of California, but is not

proper in the Northern District. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). An action filed in the wrong venue

may be dismissed or transferred to the proper venue. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). Although the

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court frequently transfers prisoner cases to the proper venue when they have been filed in the

wrong venue, it will not do so here because there appear to be two districts in which the action

may be brought. The court will leave it to Yarborough to decide whether he wants to proceed

in the Eastern District or Southern District of California.

Accordingly, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a) this action is DISMISSED. This dismissal

is without prejudice to Yarborough filing a new action in the Eastern District or Southern

District of California. The clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 11/30/06 __________________ _______________________

 SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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