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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALEJANDRO MADRID,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,

Defendant.

No. 2:13-cv-2190 JAM DAD P

ORDER

Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an action alleging civil rights 

violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The alleged violations took place primarily in Fresno County

and Tuolumne County, which are parts of the Fresno Division of the United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of California.1 See Local Rule 120(d). 

 

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The complaint alleges prison officials have exhibited an ongoing indifference to severe pain in 

plaintiff’s shoulder since March 14, 2008, while plaintiff was an inmate at the San Joaquin 

County Jail. (Complaint (Doc. No. 1) at 2.) However, plaintiff has not named anyone associated 

with the San Joaquin County Jail as a defendant in this action. Rather, he has sued only the 

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), representing that he was taken

into CDCR custody on November 24, 2010. (Id.) The complaint does not say to which CDCR 

facility plaintiff was initially assigned in November 2010. In his complaint plaintiff does allege

he received inadequate medical care at Pleasant Valley State Prison, which is in Fresno County, 

and that he was transferred to that facility in April 2011. (Id. at 3.) The complaint also alleges 

that plaintiff’s pain has continued at least until the day he filed this action in October 2013, at 

which time he was assigned to the Sierra Conservation Center (SCC), which is in Tuolumne 

County. (Id.) As of the date of this order, the court’s docket reflects plaintiff is still incarcerated 

at SCC. 

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Pursuant to Local Rule 120(f), a civil action which has not been commenced in the proper 

division of a court may, on the court’s own motion, be transferred to the proper division of the 

court. Therefore, this action will be transferred to the Fresno Division of the court. In light of 

1996 amendments to 28 U.S.C. § 1915, this court will not rule on plaintiff’s request to proceed in 

forma pauperis.

Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. This action is transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 

California sitting in Fresno.

2. All future filings shall reference the new Fresno case number assigned and shall be 

filed at:

United States District Court

Eastern District of California

2500 Tulare Street

Fresno, CA 93721

Dated: April 10, 2014

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