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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SEDRIC EUGENE JOHNSON, 1:21-cv-01336-HBK (PC)

Plaintiff, v. ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

SACRAMENTO DIVISION OF THE

P. COUELLO, et al., EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Defendants.

16 Before the Court is Plaintiff Sedric Eugene Johnson’s pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed on September 7, 2021. (Doc. No. 1). Plaintiff did not pay the filing fee or accompany his complaint with an application to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff filed the complaint while he was incarcerated in California Correctional Institution, Tehachapi. (See Id.). According to the allegations in the complaint, the events which give rise to Plaintiff’s claims took place while Plaintiff was incarcerated in Mule Creek State Prison, located in Amador County, California. (Doc. No. 1 at 1-2). Because the events giving rise to the cause of action occurred in Amador County, which is within the venue of the Sacramento Division, Plaintiff should…