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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

GLENN EDWARD MERRIFIELD,

Plaintiff,

v.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY RISK

MANAGEMENT, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY,

SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT, and

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY DISTRICT

ATTORNEY’S OFFICE,

Defendants.

CIV S-05-1068 LKK PAN PS

ORDER 

—NFN—

Plaintiff, who resides in Santa Barbara, has filed in pro

se a complaint and application to proceed in forma pauperis. The

federal venue statute requires that a civil action, other than

one based on diversity jurisdiction, be brought only in “(1) a

judicial district where any defendant resides, if all defendants

reside in the same State, (2) a judicial district in which a

substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the

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claim occurred, or a substantial part of property that is the

subject of the action is situated, or (3) a judicial district in

which any defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction at the

time the action is commenced, if there is no district in which

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

In this case, all defendants are located and the claim

arose in Santa Barbara County, which is in the Central District

of California. Therefore, plaintiff’s claims should have been

filed in 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) (“The district court

of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong

division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest

of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in

which it could have been brought”).

Accordingly, this matter is hereby transferred to the

United States District Court for the Central District of

California. 

So ordered.

Dated: June 6, 2005. 

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski 

 PETER A. NOWINSKI

 Magistrate Judge

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