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Nature of Suit Code: 560
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Civil Detainee - Conditions of Confinement
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

ALVIN RAY QUARLES,

Plaintiff,

v.

CLIFF ALLENBY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04798-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Plaintiff, a civil detainee, has filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He is 

either committed or awaiting a determination of civil commitment pursuant to California’s 

Sexually Violent Predators Act. See Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code 6600, et seq. Plaintiff is committed

in Coalinga, CA which is located in the Eastern District of California. It appears that plaintiff is 

challenging the type of treatment that he is receiving in the Eastern District though he seeks 

release into an outpatient program. Venue, therefore, properly lies in that district and not in this 

one. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b).1 

This case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Eastern District 

of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). In view of the transfer, the Court will not rule upon 

plaintiff’s request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 14, 2014

______________________________________

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

 

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Even if this case were construed as a challenge to plaintiff’s civil commitment or the ongoing 

commitment proceedings, the case would be transferred as the commitment arises from San Diego 

County which is located in the Southern District of California. 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALVIN RAY QUARLES,

Plaintiff,

v.

CLIFF ALLENBY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04798-JD 

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 11/14/2014, 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.

Alvin Ray Quarles

Patient No: 1734-3

P.O. Box 5003

Coalinga, CA 93210 

Dated: 11/14/2014

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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