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Parties Involved:
J. Gastelo
Respondent
Travis S. Overton
Petitioner

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISON

TRAVIS S. OVERTON,

Petitioner,

v.

J. GASTELO,

Respondent.

Case No. 16-cv-2724-NJV (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner seeks 

to challenge a conviction obtained in the Solano County Superior Court. Solano County is in the 

venue of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Petitioner is 

incarcerated in the Central District of California. 

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

conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither. Because petitions challenging a 

conviction are preferably heard in the district of conviction, Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v. 

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968), and petitioner was convicted and in the Eastern 

District, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Eastern District 

of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 27, 2016

________________________

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

Case 1:16-cv-02724-NJV Document 4 Filed 05/27/16 Page 1 of 1