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Parties Involved:
Director of Department of Corrections
Respondent
Michael McCartney
Petitioner

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL McCARTNEY, 

Petitioner, No. CIV S-06-2504 MCE KJM P

vs.

DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS (“DOC”), et al.,

 

Respondents. ORDER

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Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of

habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , together with a request to proceed in forma

pauperis. In his application, petitioner challenges the results of a disciplinary hearing and

inadequacies in the institutional appeals from that hearing, which was held at Sierra

Conservation Center, which is in Tuolumne County. Tuolumne County is part of the Fresno

Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. See Local

Rule 3-120(d). 

Pursuant to Local Rule 3-120(f), a civil action which has not been commenced in

the proper division of a court may, on the court’s own motion, be transferred to the proper

division of the court. Therefore, this action will be transferred to the Fresno Division of the

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court. This court will not rule on petitioner’s request to proceed in forma pauperis.

Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

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

2. This action is transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of California sitting in Fresno; and

3. All future filings shall reference the new Fresno case number assigned and

shall be filed at:

United States District Court

Eastern District of California

2500 Tulare Street

Fresno, CA 93721

DATED: November 20, 2006. 

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