Cortina

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WILLIAM SHAW, No. 2:24-cv-02247 SCR P Plaintiff, v. ORDER A. CORTINA, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is incarcerated in state prison and proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with this civil rights action under § 1983. On September 30, 2025, the undersigned issued a screening order on plaintiff’s original complaint. (ECF No. 9.) The proper venue was not clear from the face of the complaint, but the undersigned declined to sua sponte transfer the action at that time. Instead, the undersigned directed plaintiff to plead in an amended complaint where the underlying events occurred. (Id. at 5-6.) On October 3, 2025, plaintiff filed an amended complaint that alleges rights violations at Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County. (ECF No. 14.) The federal venue statute provides that a civil action “may be brought in (1) a judicial district in which any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of…