Solorio

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 GUILLERMO SOLORIO, Case No. 24-cv-04690-JSW

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v.

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants.

Petitioner, a California prisoner proceeding without an attorney at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to stop his transfer from state to federal custody. CMF is in Solano County, which lies within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84. As the petition concerns Petitioner’s confinement, the Eastern District, where Petitioner is confined, is the more convenient forum. Cf. Dunne v. Henman, 875 F.2d 244, 249-50 (9th Cir. 1989) (suggesting that preferred forum for federal habeas petitions is district where petitioner is confined); Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh, 864 F.2d 804, 814 (D.C. Cir. 1988) (“venue considerations may, and frequently will, argue in favor of adjudication of the habeas claim in the jurisdiction where the habeas petitioner is confined); cf.…