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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
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

CLIFFORD H. PATTERSON,

Petitioner,

v.

BRIAN DUFFY,

Respondent.

Case No. 15-cv-00118-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This case was opened when plaintiff wrote a letter to the court regarding his conviction and 

his medical care. In an effort to protect his rights, it was filed as a new case. While filed as a civil 

rights action, petitioner has filed a formal habeas petition. He states he was convicted in San 

Diego Superior Court which is located in Southern District of California. He is currently 

incarcerated in Stockton, CA in the Eastern District of California. 

Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement or the district of 

conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither. Because petitions challenging a 

conviction are preferably heard in the district of conviction, Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v. 

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968), and petitioner was convicted and in the Southern

District, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Southern District 

of California.1 See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 9, 2015

______________________________________

James Donato

United States District Judge

 

1 A habeas petition challenging this same conviction was recently denied in the Southern District. 

Patterson v. Beard, 2015 WL 412842 (S.D. Cal., Jan. 30, 2015).

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLIFFORD H. PATTERSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

BRIAN DUFFY,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-00118-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 3/9/2015, 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.

Clifford H. Patterson ID: AD1798

California Health Care Facility, Stockton

P. O. Box 32050

Stockton, CA 95213 

Dated: 3/9/2015

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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