Andy Lashawn Fortner v. Lake County Jail Religious Services

INTRODUCTION

19 Plaintiff, an inmate in the Lake County Jail proceeding without representation by an 20 attorney, filed these two petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United 21 States District Court for the Central District of California. The Central District transferred these cases to this court.1

DISCUSSION

24 In the petitions, Petitioner challenges the conditions of his confinement at the Lake County 25 Jail, and not his conviction or sentence. “A § 1983 action is the exclusive vehicle for claims

27 1 The Central District also transferred at least four other actions by Plaintiff to this district because brought by state prisoners that are not within the core of habeas corpus,” which are claims that “necessarily challenge the validity or duration of the underlying conviction or sentence.” Nettles v. Grounds, 830 F.3d 922, 927, 929 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc); see also Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749, 750 (2004) (per curiam) (“Challenges to the validity of any confinement or to particulars affecting its duration are the province of habeas corpus; requests for relief turning on circumstances of confinement may…