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Parties Involved:
Albert Billinger
Petitioner
Church
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALBERT BILLINGER,

Plaintiff,

v.

//,

Defendant.

Case No. 16-cv-00222-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner seeks to challenge a 

conviction obtained in Long Beach, CA which is in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County is 

in the venue of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Petitioner is 

incarcerated in Stockton, CA, which is located 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 in Los Angeles 

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

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

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 17, 2016

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

ALBERT BILLINGER,

Plaintiff,

v.

CHURCH,

Defendant.

Case No. 16-cv-00222-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 March 17, 2016, 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.

Albert Billinger ID: V27565

CHCF - Stockton

P.O. Box 32200

Stockton, CA 95312 

Dated: March 17, 2016

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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