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Parties Involved:
C.R.C. Norco Medical Staff
Defendant
Earl Stanley Polk
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EARL STANLEY POLK,

Plaintiff,

v.

C.R.C. NORCO MEDICAL STAFF,

Defendant.

1:15-cv-01089-DLB (PC)

ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE 

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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

U.S.C. ' 1983. 

The federal venue statute requires that a civil action, other than one based on diversity 

jurisdiction, be brought only in A(1) a judicial district where any defendant resides, if all 

defendants reside in the same state, (2) a judicial district in which a substantial part of the events 

or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or a substantial part of the property that is the 

subject of the action is situated, or (3) a judicial district in which any defendant may be found, if 

there is no district in which the action may otherwise be brought.@ 28 U.S.C. ' 1391(b).

In this case, none of the defendants reside in this district. The claim arose in Riverside

County, which is in the Central District of California. Therefore, plaintiff=s claim should have 

been filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In the interest 

of justice, a federal court may transfer a complaint filed in the wrong district to the correct 

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district. See 28 U.S.C. ' 1406(a); Starnes v. McGuire, 512 F.2d 918, 932 (D.C. Cir. 1974).

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is transferred to the United 

States District Court for the Central District of California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 16, 2015 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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