(PC) Keplinger v. Kern County

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JASON D. KEPLINGER, No. 2:25-cv-1180 AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER KERN COUNTY, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 23, 2025, plaintiff filed a civil rights complaint against defendants Kern County, Laredo Jail, the State of California, and Kern Medical Center. ECF No. 1 at 1. The complaint alleges that from 1996 to 2025 plaintiff has been in custody and has been refused medical treatment several times. Id. at 3. Plaintiff also alleges that doctors “in Kern County, Laredo Jail and several state prison [sic] including every mental hospital State of California” has lied to him about test results and has lied on paper. Id. The federal venue statute states that [a] civil action may be brought in (1) a judicial district in which any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of the State…