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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

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

In re ROBERT HARRIS,

Plaintiff. /

No. C 08-4442 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This case was opened when plaintiff wrote to this court asking for assistance in

obtaining a transfer from Pleasant Valley State Prison to another prison for medical reasons. In

an effort to protect plaintiff’s rights, it was treated as an attempt to open a new case. The filing

was directed to the attention of Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, but he does not say why he so

addressed it, and Judge Armstrong is not presiding over any case involving Pleasant Valley

State Prison, which is in the Eastern District. As a result the case was randomly assigned to the

undersigned. 

Construing the filing as a civil rights complaint, the acts complained of occurred at

Pleasant Valley State Prison, which lies within the venue of the United States District Court for

the Eastern District of California. Presumably any appropriate defendants would reside in that

district as well. Venue, therefore, properly lies in that district and not in this one. See 28

U.S.C. § 1391(b). This case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the

Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). In view of the transfer, the Court will

not rule upon plaintiff's request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 26 , 2008. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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