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Parties Involved:
Cecily Grey
Defendant
Charles Hoen
Defendant
Edjuan Scott
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER OF TRANSFER

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

 *E-Filed 2/29/16*

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

EDJUAN SCOTT,

Plaintiff,

v.

CHARLES HOEN, and

CECILY GREY,

Defendants. /

No. C 11-3754 RS (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a federal civil rights action filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a pro se state

prisoner. In his complaint, plaintiff asserts that in October 2011 the Contra Costa County

Superior Court (at his attorneys’ request) ordered him to undergo shock treatment. He

further alleges that he has been receiving such treatment daily from then until the present,

which he seeks to halt by way of this lawsuit. 

Evidence presented by plaintiff contradicts these assertions and indicates that this suit

should be transferred to another district. For example, a 2015 letter from the superior court

denies that any such treatment was requested or ordered and thus eliminates the basis for his

suit being heard in this district. (First Am. Compl., Ex. K at 1.) Also, a 2015 grievance

appeal decision from Sacramento State Prison, where petitioner has been housed since

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October 2013, states that “[t]here is no evidence that shock therapy has been ordered nor [is]

being administered.” (Id., Ex. I at 11.) 

This action will be transferred. Whatever the truth of plaintiff’s allegations, this

district is not the appropriate one in which his suit should be heard. The appropriate venue is

where the treatments allegedly are being administered currently. That venue is the Eastern

District of California, wherein Sacramento State Prison lies. Accordingly, this federal civil

rights action is TRANSFERRED to the Eastern District of California, wherein a substantial

part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claims occurred and where relief, if any is

appropriate, can be directly implemented. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 84(b), 1391(b), and 1406(a). 

The Clerk shall transfer this action forthwith. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: February 29, 2016 

 RICHARD SEEBORG

United States District Judge

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