Sawyer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JEHU HAND, Case No. 1:19-cv-01329-HBK Petitioner, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY PETITION

SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED AS MOOT

v.

RESPONSE DUE IN THIRTY DAYS

KATHLEEN HAWK SAWYER, STEVEN “MIKE” MERLAK, (Doc. No. 1) 15 Respondent.

17 I. BACKGROUND Petitioner Jehu Hand, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. No. 1). In June 2019, petitioner, while incarcerated at Taft Federal Corrections Institution, sought placement in either home confinement or at a residential reentry center. (Doc. No. 1 at 3). Petitioner’s request was rejected by the Bureau of Prisons, as were his administrative appeals of the rejection. (Id. at 6-7). As relief, petitioner requests the court to review the BOP’s placement decision and order an independent panel to access petitioner’s placement. (Id. at 2). II. APPLICABLE LAW The “case-or-controversy requirement of Article III, § 2,…