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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

JOYCE SIMMONS,

Petitioner,

 vs.

UNITED STATES,

Respondent. /

No. C 15-4267 NJV (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner, a federal prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The court dismissed that petition with leave to amend and

petitioner has filed a request for an extension. (Doc. 13.) She states that she was being

held in this district but was just transferred to Victorville Camp in Adelanto, California, which

lies within the venue of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

A district court must determine at the outset whether a petition filed by a federal

prisoner is being prosecuted pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2255, because

Congress has given jurisdiction over these petitions to different courts. Hernandez v.

Campbell, 204 F.3d 861, 865-66 (9th Cir. 2000). A petition brought under § 2241 must be

heard in the district of confinement, whereas if the petition is properly brought under 

§ 2255, it must be heard by the sentencing court. Id. at 865.

Petitioner was convicted in the Northern District of Texas and is now confined in the

Central District of California. Because a petition under § 2241 must be heard in the district

of confinement, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the

Central District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a).

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 19, 2016. 

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

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