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Parties Involved:
John Norman Ney
Petitioner
James Yates
Respondent

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

NOT FOR CITATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN NORMAN NEY,

Petitioner,

 v.

JAMES YATES,

Respondent. /

No. C 07-2835 PJH (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

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

conviction obtained in the Superior Court in and for Tulare County. Tulare County is in the

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

incarcerated at Pleasant Valley State Prison, which also is in the Eastern 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); however, 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).

 Because petitioner was convicted in Tulare County, 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). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 10, 2007. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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