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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONDEL DELBERT GARDNER, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-00240-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER OVERULING PLAINTIFF’S v. ) OBJECTION TO ORDER OF INTRADISTRICT

TRANSFER AND DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

GAVIN NEWSOM, et.al., ) MOTION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE ) Defendants. ) [ECF No. 27] ) )

Plaintiff Rondel Delbert Gardner is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for a change of venue and objection to the order of intradistrict transfer from Sacramento, filed March 9, 2020. I. DISCUSSION A. Objection to Order of Intradistrict Transfer The federal venue statute requires that a civil action be brought in “(1) a judicial district in which any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of the State in which the district…