(HC) Price v. On Habeas Corpus

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SCOTT RICHARD PRICE, Case No. 1:22-cv-00103-SAB-HC

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

SACRAMENTO DIVISION OF THE

v. EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ON HABEAS CORPUS,

Respondent.

16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which he challenges a prison disciplinary action. Petitioner has not paid the $5.00 filing fee or submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis for this action. When a state prisoner files a habeas petition in a state that contains two or more federal judicial districts, the petition may be filed in either the judicial district in which the petitioner is presently confined or the judicial district in which he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 442 (2004) (quoting Carbo v. United States, 364 U.S. 611, 618 (1961)). Petitions challenging the execution of a sentence are preferably heard in the…