Burkhart

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ELRADER BROWNING, Case No. 1:21-cv-00041-HBK

Plaintiff, v. ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

SACRAMENTO DIVISION OF THE

M. BURKHART, et al., EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Defendants.

16 17 Before the Court is Plaintiff Elrader Browning’s pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed on January 12, 2021. (Doc. No. 1). Plaintiff filed the complaint while he was incarcerated in Kern Valley State Prison. According to the allegations in the complaint, the events which give rise to plaintiff’s claims took place while plaintiff was incarcerated in New Folsom/Sacramento State Prison (California State Prison- Sacramento). Because the events giving rise to the cause of action occurred in Sacramento County, which is within the venue of the Sacramento Division, plaintiff should have filed the complaint in the Sacramento Division of this court. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b)(1)-(2); see also Ziegler v. Indian River County, 64 F.3d 470,…