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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 

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COURT

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of California

San Francisco Division

JOSEF LEE JOHNSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

TUPAC SHAKUR; et al., 

Defendants.

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No. 15-cv-2954 LB

ORDER OF TRANSFER

[ECF No. 5]

Josef Lee Johnson, an inmate at the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, filed this

pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He consented to proceed before a magistrate

judge. (ECF No. 7.) The complaint is difficult to understand but appears to complain about his

detention by police officers and/or the prosecution that followed that detention. (ECF No. 5 at 3.) 

Two of the defendants are officers in the Riverside Police Department. (Id. at 2.) The third

defendant, Tupac Shakur, is a long-deceased rap musician, as to whom there are no allegations in the

complaint. The events and omissions giving rise to the complaint appear to have occurred, and the

live defendants appear to reside, in Riverside County, which is located within the venue of the

Central District of California. No defendant is alleged to reside in, and none of the events or

omissions giving rise to the complaint are alleged to have occurred in, the Northern District of

California. Venue is proper in the Central District, and not in this one. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). 

Because there is no reason to believe that the Northern District is the proper venue, and because this

court and the Central District may require different information in an amended complaint, it is not in

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the interest of justice to require plaintiff to amend to provide a clearer statement of his claims before

the action is transferred to the proper venue. Accordingly, in the interest of justice and pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 1406(a), this action is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the

Central District of California. The clerk shall transfer this matter. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 16, 2015 _______________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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