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Parties Involved:
Joseph S. Duran
Petitioner
Foss
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH S. DURAN,

Petitioner,

v.

FOSS,

Respondent.

Case No. 19-cv-01248-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Re: Dkt. No. 4

This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner challenges a conviction 

obtained in Solano County Superior Court. Solano County is in the venue of the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California. Petitioner previously filed a habeas petition in 

the Eastern District regarding this same conviction that was denied on the merits and affirmed by 

the Ninth Circuit. See Duran v. Grounds, No. 14-cv-0094 JAM GGH. Petitioner is incarcerated 

in this district.

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

conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 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 in the Eastern District of California and already filed a 

habeas petition in that district, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court 

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

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In view of the transfer, the Court will not rule upon plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis 

(Docket No. 4) which is VACATED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 16, 2019

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH S. DURAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

FOSS,

Defendant.

Case No. 19-cv-01248-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 April 16, 2019, 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.

Joseph S. Duran ID: AF2185

Salinas Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 1050

Soledad, CA 93960 

Dated: April 16, 2019

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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