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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Sally Hardy
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SALLY HARDY,

Plaintiff,

v.

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE,

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY ADMINISTRATION,

Defendant.

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CIV-F-08-0788 AWI SMS

ORDER RE: INTRADISTRICT

TRANSFER TO SACRAMENTO

Plaintiff filed suit in the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division on June 4, 2008

seeking review of a Social Security Administration denial of disability benefits. In the

complaint, Plaintiff asserts she is “a resident of Redding, CA, Shasta County, which is located in

the Eastern District of California, and thus venue in this district is proper.” Doc. 1, Complaint, at

1:22-24. Under the applicable law, “Such action shall be brought in the district court of the

United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides...” 42 U.S.C. §405(g). Under

the local rules of the Eastern District, 

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 the United States District Court sitting in Fresno,

California, and in Bakersfield, Yosemite National Park or other designated places within

those counties as the Court shall designate when appropriate for Magistrate Judge

criminal proceedings. All civil and criminal actions and legal proceedings of every nature

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and kind cognizable in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

California arising in Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc,

Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou,

Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo and Yuba counties shall be commenced in

Sacramento, California, and in Redding or other designated places within those counties

as the Court shall designate when appropriate for Magistrate Judge criminal proceedings.

Local Rule 3-120(d), emphasis added. Local Rule 3-120(f) states: “Whenever in any action the

Court finds upon its own motion, motion of any party, or stipulation that an action has not been

commenced in the proper Court in accordance with this Rule, or for other good cause, the Court

may transfer the same to another venue within the District.” 

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that this matter is transferred to the Sacramento

Division of the Eastern District of California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 10, 2008 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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