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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 

EVERETT GALINDO GONZALEZ, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

C. GUIRBINO, 

Defendants. 

No. 2:14-cv-335-EFB P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 

U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. § 1915. ECF No. 2. 

 Plaintiff alleges that he has been confined to the Security Housing Unit (“SHU”) at 

Corcoran State Prison for over thirteen years. ECF No. 1 ¶ 31. He claims that his confinement in 

the SHU amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and 

infringes upon his right to practice his religion. Id. ¶¶ 31-33, 79-89, 69-78. He also claims he has 

been retained in the SHU without due process. Id. ¶¶ 31-33. He names approximately 22 

individuals as defendants. Id. ¶¶ 8-30. 

 Plaintiff refers to his September 12, 2013 appearance in Sacramento before the 

Departmental Review Board (“DRB”), which apparently elected to retain him in the SHU. See 

id. ¶¶ 59-68. Plaintiff claims that during these proceedings, the DRB defendants violated his 

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First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Id. ¶ 62. The bulk of plaintiff’s complaint, 

however, concerns his conditions of confinement in the Corcoran SHU, which is in Kings 

County, California. In addition, most of the defendants appear to be located in Kings County. 

 Kings County is in the Fresno Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California. For the convenience of the parties and witnesses and in the interest of 

justice, this action will be transferred to the Fresno Division. Where a civil action has not been 

commenced in the proper division of a court, the court may, on its own motion, transfer the action 

to the proper division. E.D. Cal. Local Rule 120(f); see also 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). 

 Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that: 

 1. This action is transferred to the Fresno Division. 

 2. The Clerk of Court shall assign a new case number. 

 3. All future filings shall bear the new case number and shall be filed at: 

 United States District Court 

 Eastern District of California 

 2500 Tulare Street 

 Fresno, CA 93721 

DATED: February 6, 2014. 

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