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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JONATHAN LEE RICHES,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-07-2394 MCE JFM P

vs.

BENAZIR BHUTTO, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a complaint challenging a

detainer placed on him by federal immigration officials and seeking injunctive relief against an

alleged planned deportation of petitioner to Pakistan in March 2012. Petitioner is incarcerated at

the Federal Correctional Institution in Williamsburg, South Carolina. Good cause appearing, this

action will be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. 

See Dunne v. Henman, 875 F.2d 244 (9th Cir. 1989) (venue over challenge to federal detainer

lodged against federal prisoner lies in district of incarceration).

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is transferred to the

United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

DATED: December 18, 2007.

12/mp

rich2394.21

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