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Parties Involved:
Flemings Restaurant
Defendant
Jason E. Pellum
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JASON E. PELLUM SR.,

Plaintiff,

v.

FLEMINGS RESTAURANT, INC.,

Defendant.

No. 2:15-cv-0437 TLN DAD PS

ORDER

Plaintiff, Jason Pellum, is proceeding in this action pro se. This matter was referred to the 

undersigned in accordance with Local Rule 302(c)(21) and 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Plaintiff has 

filed a complaint and has requested leave to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

1915.

The allegations of plaintiff’s complaint reveal that both plaintiff and the named defendant 

are located in Fresno, California and that the events alleged in plaintiff’s complaint also occurred 

in Fresno, California. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California sits 

in Fresno as well as in Sacramento. Intra-district venue is governed by Local Rule 120, which 

provides as follows:

(d) Commencement of actions. All civil and criminal actions 

and proceedings of every nature and kind cognizable by the United 

States District Court for the Eastern District of California arising in 

Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, 

Stanislaus, Tulare and Tuolumne counties shall be commenced in 

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the United States District Court sitting in Fresno, California . . . .

Local Rule 120(d).

In the present case, the events at issue occurred in Fresno which is where the defendant is 

also located. Thus, this action arose in Fresno and should have been commenced in the Fresno 

Division of the court. When an action has not been filed in the proper division of this court, the 

court may, on its own motion, transfer the action to another venue within the district. See Local 

Rule 120(f). The undersigned will therefore transfer this action to the Fresno Division of the 

court for all further proceedings.

Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. This action is transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California sitting in Fresno for all further proceedings; and

2. All future filings shall reference the new Fresno case number to be assigned 

and shall be filed only at:

United States District Court

Eastern District of California

2500 Tulare Street

Fresno, CA 93721

Dated: March 13, 2015

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