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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BENJAMIN SOLIS,

Petitioner,

v.

R. T.C. GROUNDS,

Respondent.

Case No. 15-cv-01440-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner seeks to challenge a 

conviction obtained in the Orange County Superior Court. Orange County is in the venue of the 

United States District Court for the Central District of California. Petitioner is incarcerated in this 

district.

Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement or the district of 

conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Because petitions challenging a conviction are preferably heard 

in the district of conviction, Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v. Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. 

Cal. 1968), and petitioner was convicted in the Central District, this case is TRANSFERRED to 

the United States District Court for the Central District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); 

Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 19, 2015

________________________

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BENJAMIN SOLIS,

Plaintiff,

v.

R. T.C. GROUNDS,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-01440-JD 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on May 19, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing 

said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Benjamin Solis ID: AL-8626

Salinas Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 1020

A-3 133

Soledad, CA 93960 

Dated: May 19, 2015

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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