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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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 Plaintiff has not paid the required filing fee of $250.00 or submitted an application to 1

proceed in forma pauperis.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SHAUN DARNELL GARLAND,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-06-0400 FCD DAD P

vs.

A.K. SKRIBNER, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights complaint

seeking relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In the complaint received in the Sacramento 1

Division of this court on February 27, 2006, plaintiff alleges violations of his rights by more than

a dozen defendants. The alleged violations arose at California State Prison - Corcoran, which is

located in Kern County.

Kern County is part of the Fresno Division of the United States District Court for

the Eastern District of California. See Local Rule 3-120(d). A civil action that has not been

commenced in the proper division of this court may, on the court’s own motion, be transferred to

the proper division of the court. Local Rule 3-120(f). 

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The court’s records reflect that the same plaintiff filed an action against the same

defendants in the Fresno Division of this court on February 22, 2006. See Garland v. Skribner, et

al., case No. CIV F-06- 0198 OWW LJO PC. The voluminous complaint in each case

commences with an identical three-page form complaint that is signed but not dated. Page 62 of

the 169-page Fresno complaint and page 60 of the 227-page Sacramento complaint are identical

verifications dated February 15, 2006.

This action will be transferred to the Fresno Division of the court because the

complaint received in the Sacramento Division on February 27, 2006, was submitted to the

wrong division of the court. Plaintiff is advised, however, that this action may be dismissed as

duplicative of case No. Civ F-06-0198 OWW LJO PC.

Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. This action is transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of California sitting in Fresno; and

2. All future filings shall reference the new Fresno case number to be assigned

and shall be filed at:

United States District Court

Eastern District of California

2500 Tulare Street

Fresno, CA 93721

DATED: March 3, 2006.

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