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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DYRELL WAYNE JONES,

Plaintiff,

v.

C. PFEIFFER, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 19-cv-01075-DMR (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, has filed a pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

Dkt. 1. He has also filed a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkt. 2.

On February 27, 2019, the Clerk of the Court informed Plaintiff that this action has been 

assigned to the undersigned Magistrate Judge.

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 Dkt. 4.

The acts complained of occurred at Kern Valley State Prison in Kern County, which is 

located in the Eastern District of California, and it appears that Defendants reside in that district. 

Venue, therefore, properly lies in that district and not in this one. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). 

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 Eastern District of California.2 The 

Clerk shall transfer the case forthwith. 

 

1 To date, Plaintiff has not yet returned the form indicating whether he consents to or declines 

magistrate judge jurisdiction in this action.

2 Venue transfer is a non-dispositive matter and, thus, it falls within the scope of the jurisdiction of 

the undersigned Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A).

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All pending motions are TERMINATED on this court’s docket as no longer pending in 

this district.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 26, 2019 

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DONNA M. RYU

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DYRELL WAYNE JONES,

Plaintiff,

v.

C. PFEIFFER, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 4:19-cv-01075-DMR 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on March 26, 2019, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Dyrell Wayne Jones ID: AU8248

AS6-2-123

Kern Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 5104

Delano, CA 93216 

Dated: March 26, 2019

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

 

By:________________________

Ivy Lerma Garcia, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable DONNA M. RYU

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