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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DYLAN G. ABSHIRE,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. PRICE,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-05309-JSC 

AMENDED ORDER OF TRANSFER

Dkt. No. 4

The Order of Transfer entered February 6, 2015, is VACATED because it incorrectly 

directed the Clerk to transfer this case to the Central, instead of the Eastern, District of California. 

The following Amended Order is issued in its stead: 

Petitioner has filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 

challenging a conviction from Mariposa County Superior Court. He is confined at the Deuel 

Vocational Institute, which is also in Mariposa County. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus 

made by a person in custody under the judgment and sentence of a state court of a state which 

contains two or more federal judicial districts may be filed in either the district of confinement or 

the district of conviction. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Each of such districts shall have concurrent 

jurisdiction to entertain the petition; however, the district court for the district where the petition is 

filed may transfer the petition to the other district in the furtherance of justice. Id. Federal courts 

in California traditionally have chosen to hear petitions challenging a conviction or sentence in the 

district of conviction. Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 768 (N.D. Cal. 1993); Laue v. 

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968). 

Mariposa County lies within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. 

§ 84. Accordingly, this action is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the 

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United States District Court

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Eastern District of California. Ruling on the pending motion for leave to proceed in forma 

pauperis (docket number 4) is deferred to the Eastern District in light of this transfer. 

The Clerk of the Court shall transfer this matter forthwith.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 11, 2015

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JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

United States Magistrate Judge

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