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Parties Involved:
DeMarrea McCoy-Gordon
Petitioner
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP)
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DEMARREA MCCOY-GORDON, AV9561,

Petitioner,

v.

PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON,

Respondent.

Case No. 19-cv-02984-SK (PR)

ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE

AND INSTRUCTING CLERK TO 

UPDATE PETITIONER’S MAILING 

ADDRESS

Petitioner, a state prisoner incarcerated at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and 

State Prison, Corcoran (SATF-CSP, Corcoran)1pursuant to a 2017 conviction from Solano 

County Superior Court, has filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 

2254 seeking to invalidate a prison disciplinary finding he sustained while incarcerated at Pelican 

Bay State Prison (PBSP) that resulted in a loss of time credits and longer period of incarceration. 

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

confinement. 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). But the district of confinement is the preferable forum to 

review habeas challenges to the execution of a sentence, including challenges to prison 

disciplinary actions that affected a prisoner’s length of confinement. See Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); 

Dunne v. Henman, 875 F.2d 244, 249 (9th Cir. 1989).

Because petitioner is incarcerated at SATF-CSP, Corcoran in Kings County, which lies 

within the venue of the Eastern District of California, 28 U.S.C. § 84(b), the court ORDERS that 

 

1 Petitioner filed this action while he was incarcerated at California State Prison, 

Sacramento (SAC), but recently filed a notice in another case informing the court that he had been 

transferred to SATF-CSP, Corcoran. The court has confirmed that petitioner was transferred to 

SATF-CSP, Corcoran and instructs the clerk to update petitioner’s mailing address in this case to 

CSATF-CSP, Corcoran, C3-231, P.O. Box 5246, Corcoran, CA 93212.

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United States District Court

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pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and Habeas Local Rule 2254-3(b), and in the interest of justice, 

this petition be TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 

California. 

The clerk shall transfer this matter forthwith.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 12, 2019

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SALLIE KIM

United States Magistrate Judge

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