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Parties Involved:
Steven Banks
Plaintiff
Pam Ahlin
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STEVEN BANKS, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

PAM AHLIN, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:15-cv-0496-EFB P 

ORDER 

Plaintiff, a civil detainee proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 

U.S.C. § 1983, together with a request to proceed in forma pauperis. In the complaint, plaintiff 

alleges that his conditions of confinement are unconstitutional and that defendant Ahlin violated 

his civil rights.1

 Plaintiff is confined to Coalinga State Hospital, which is in Fresno, California. 

Fresno County is in the Fresno Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California, and this action should have been commenced there. E.D. Cal. Local Rule 

120(d). Where a civil action has not been commenced in the proper division of a court, the court 

may, on its own motion, transfer the action to the proper division. E.D. Cal. Local Rule 120(f). 

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 Apart from the named defendant, this complaint is one of a number of virtually identical 

actions that have been filed in or transferred to the Fresno Division of the United States District 

Court for the Eastern District of California. See, e.g., Klein v. King, No. 1:14-cv-1440-MJS (E.D. 

Cal.); Jones v. Allenby, No. 1:15-cv-0070-JLT (E.D. Cal.); Mack v. Allenby, No.1:15-cv-0020-

LJO-MJS (E.D. Cal.). 

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 Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that: 

 1. This action is transferred to the Fresno Division. 

 2. The Clerk of Court shall assign a new case number. 

 3. All future filings shall bear the new case number and shall be filed at: 

 United States District Court 

 Eastern District of California 

 2500 Tulare Street 

 Fresno, CA 93721 

DATED: April 16, 2015. 

 

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