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Parties Involved:
Pam Ahlin
Respondent
Douglas MacKenzie
Petitioner

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

PAM AHLIN, Director, California State 

Hospitals, 

Respondent. 

No. 2:15-cv-01254 AC P 

ORDER 

 Petitioner proceeds pro se with an application to proceed in forma pauperis and a petition 

for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner, who is currently detained at 

Coalinga State Hospital, is challenging civil detention proceedings under California’s Sexually 

Violent Predator Act that are currently pending against him in Orange County, California. 

Petitioner states that federal authorities have suspended his deportation proceedings pending the 

conclusion of these state proceedings. 

 Petitioner’s place of detention is within the jurisdiction of this court’s Fresno division. 

However, petitioner is attempting to challenge proceedings that are pending in Orange County, 

which is within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Central District of 

California. Because witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of petitioner’s 

application are more readily available in Orange County, this action will be transferred to the 

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Central District. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d) (courts with concurrent jurisdiction under Section 2241 

may transfer the action to the alternate jurisdiction “in furtherance of justice”); see also Braden v. 

30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484, 499 n.15 (1973) (the most convenient forum is 

generally the district in which petitioner’s detainer was lodged). 

 Accordingly, in furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 1. This court has not ruled on petitioner’s application to proceed in forma pauperis; and 

 2. This matter is transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of 

California. 

DATED: June 22, 2015 

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