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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

AUDREY B. HEMESATH

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814 

Telephone: (916) 554-2729

Attorneys for Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RANJIT KAUR,

Plaintiff,

v.

Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland

Security, et al.

 Defendants.

 

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No. 1:07-CV-347 OWW NEW

STIPULATION TO TRANSFER VENUE

OF ACTION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT

OF CALIFORNIA AND ORDER

[28 U.S.C. § 1406(a)]

This is an action arising under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b). Plaintiff, a resident of San Leandro,

California, alleges that she attended a naturalization examination on February 13, 2006, in

Fresno, California, but that her application remains unadjudicated.

Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), if there is failure to make a naturalization determination

120 days or more after the date of a naturalization examination, the applicant may apply to the

United States District Court for the district in which the applicant resides for a hearing on the

matter.

San Leandro, California is located in Alameda County, in the Northern District of

California. 28 U.S.C. § 84(a). Accordingly, venue for this action is proper in the Northern

District, but not in this District. 

The parties to this action, by and through their attorneys, hereby stipulate and request of

the Court that this action should be transferred to the Northern District of California pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). Section 1406(a) provides:

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The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying in venue in the wrong

division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such

case to any district or division in which it could have been brought. 

Because venue is proper only in the Northern District, the parties believe that the interests of

justice require that this action be transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern

District of California.

In addition, the time for a response to the complaint has not yet run, and in view of the

uncertainty as to when this action will be docketed and assigned to a jdge in the Northern District

of California, the parties further stipulate and request of the Court that the time for the

Defendants to answer, move, plead or otherwise respond to the Complaint should be extended to

40 days after the date the action is docketed and assigned to a judge in the Northern District of

California.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: April 24, 2007. McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Audrey B. Hemesath 

AUDREY B. HEMESATH

Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants

/s/ James M. Makasian

Attorney for Plaintiff

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ORDER

The foregoing stipulation is approved and this action is hereby transferred to the United

States District Court for the Northern District of California, the judicial district in which this case

should have been brought. The time for Defendants to answer, move, plead or otherwise respond

to the Plaintiff’s Complaint shall be extended to 40 days after the action is docketed, and a judge

assigned, in the Northern District of California. IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 27, 2007 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

emm0d6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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