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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

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARL JOHNSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. HEAD, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-02768-JD 

ORDER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL 

INFORMATION

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, has filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

He has been granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff alleges that several CDCR 

Transportation Officers were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs while he was

being transported. Plaintiff was taken from California Men’s Colony and transported to Corcoran 

Prison with stops at California Correctional Institution, California Rehabilitation Center, and 

Chino State Prison. These locations lie in the Central and Eastern Districts of California. Plaintiff 

identifies no events that occurred in the Northern District of California.1 Plaintiff states that the 

office of the transportation unit for CDCR lies in the Northern District, but provides no additional 

information. While not alleged, presumably the named defendants also reside in the Northern 

District. If this is accurate then venue may be proper in this district.

Venue is proper in the district in which (1) any defendant resides, if all of the defendants 

reside in the same state, (2) the district in which a substantial part of the events or omissions 

giving rise to the claim occurred, or a substantial part of property that is the subject of the action is 

 

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Plaintiff is currently incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison in the Eastern District of California.

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situated, or (3) a judicial district in which any defendant may be found, if there is no district in 

which the action may otherwise be brought. 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b).

Within fourteen (14) days plaintiff shall provide service addresses for the defendants in 

this case as this information will be necessary should the Court order service.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 23, 2014

______________________________________

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

14-cv-02768-JD-_ord

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