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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ADRIAN DE LOS SANTOS GARCIA,

Plaintiff,

v.

SAN BERNADINO SHERIFF’S 

DEPARTMENT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:20-cv-00164-JDP

ORDER TRANSFRERING CASE TO THE 

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Plaintiff Adrian De Los Santos Garcia is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in 

this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

The federal venue statute requires that a civil action, when not based on diversity 

jurisdiction, be brought only in “(1) a judicial district where any defendant resides, if all 

defendants are residents of the State in which the district is located, (2) a judicial district in which 

a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or a substantial part 

of the property that is the subject of the action is situated, or (3) if there is no district in which an 

action may otherwise be brought as provided in this section, any judicial district in which any 

defendant is subject to the court’s personal jurisdiction with respect to such action.” 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1391(b).

Here, none of the defendants resides in this district, and the claim arose in San Bernardino 

County in the Central District of California. Therefore, plaintiff’s claim should have been filed in 

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the United States District Court for the Central District of California. 

In the interest of justice, a federal court may transfer a complaint filed in the wrong 

district to the correct district. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). Accordingly, the court orders this matter 

transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 9, 2020 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

No. 205.

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