Warden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEVEN MICHAEL SANDSTROM,

Case No. 21-cv-08452-JCS (PR) Petitioner, 7 Vv. ORDER OF TRANSFER WARDEN, Respondent. 10 1] gs 212 Petitioner, a federal prisoner who was convicted in Missouri and is housed at USP E || Atwater in the Eastern District of California, seeks habeas relief from his federal . |] convictions. As a general rule, federal prisoners must pursue such relief by way of a 28 || U.S.C. § 2255 petition filed in the district of conviction. Here, however, petitioner seeks A || relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on grounds that § 2255 is an inadequate means to test the

|| legality of his convictions. (Pet., Dkt. No. 1 at 10.) “For core habeas petitions challenging present physical confinement [under || § 2241], jurisdiction lies in only one district: the district of confinement.” Rumsfeld v. || Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 442-43 (2004). Accordingly, this action is TRANSFERRED to the || Eastern District of…