Michael David Grant v. California Department of Corrections, and Rehabilitation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MICHAEL DAVID GRANT, Case No. 21-cv-03730-PJH

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v. 9 Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 4 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS, AND

REHABILITATION (CDCR), Defendant. 12 13 This is a civil rights case brought pro se by a state prisoner. Plaintiff is incarcerated in the Central District of California and raises claims against defendants in that district. He states that the Internal Revenue Service sent the prison a debit card with his economic impact payment (“EIP”) pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (The “CARES Act”), Pub. L. No. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281 (2020). 18 He contends that prison officials are holding his debit card along with the debit cards of 19 other inmates at his prison, because debit cards are not an authorized form of payment 20 allowed for prisoners. For relief, he seeks prison officials to provide him his funds. 21 In Scholl v. Mnuchin, 494 F. Supp. 3d 661 (N.D. Cal. 2020) this court found that 22 the Department of Treasury and Internal…