Sanchez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BENJAMIN C. SANCHEZ, Case No. 25-cv-01217-SVK

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v.

CDCR CALIFORNIA, et al., Defendants.

Self-represented Plaintiff seeks redress for events that occurred in a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the “CDCR”) facility in San Luis Obispo County. He sues the CDCR and two individual defendants who appear to be either employees of or persons incarcerated at the CDCR facility. The CDCR is headquartered in Sacramento, which is located in the Eastern District of California (see Gardea v. California, No. 24-cv-03383-AC, 2024 WL 5307138, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Dec. 27, 2024)), and the individual defendants appear to reside in San Luis Obispo County, which is located in the Central District of California (see 28 U.S.C. § 84(c)). Thus, this action involves events that occurred and defendants who reside outside this district. Yet venue is generally proper in the district where: (1) “any defendant resides, if all…