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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ORION DOUGLAS MEMMOTT, No. 2:24-cv-01395-TLN-CKD (PS) Plaintiff, v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE BONNIE MANNING, et al., Defendants.

17 This case comes before the Court on Plaintiff Orion Douglas Memmott’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) filed May 15, 2024, and Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint (“FAC”) filed on August 23, 2024. (ECF Nos. 2-3.) See 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (authorizing the commencement of an action “without prepayment of fees or security” by a person that is unable to pay such fees). The undersigned declines to rule at this time on the IFP motion, however, because an initial review of this action indicates that Plaintiff filed this case in the wrong district court. Instead, the court orders Plaintiff to show cause why this action should not be dismissed without prejudice or transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, under 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). 27 1 Because Plaintiff is…