Yee

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BURK N. ASHFORD, No. 2:19-cv-2358-KJM-EFB PS Plaintiff, v. ORDER BETTY T. YEE, State Controller for State of California; COMERICA INCORPORATED; COMERICA BANK & TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; and COMERICA SECURITIES, INC., and

DOES 1-20,

17 Defendants.

19 Plaintiff originally commenced this action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. ECF No. 3. That court granted plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis, deferred screening the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2), and transferred the case to this district pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). ECF Nos. 4 & 6; see 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) (“For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.”). 27 This case, in which plaintiff is proceeding in propria persona, was referred to the undersigned under Local…