Arviza

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RAOUL LAFOND, No. 2:22-cv-1061 KJN P Petitioner, v. ORDER M. ARVIZA, Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, together with a request to proceed in forma pauperis. In his application, petitioner alleges denial of adequate medical care at Federal Correctional Institution (“FCI”) Mendota. Because petitioner challenges conditions of confinement, the undersigned construes this action as a Bivens action. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971); Shook v. Apker, 472 F. App’x 702, 702–03 (9th Cir. 2012) (regardless of the relief requested, federal prisoner’s claims of inadequate medical care “concern the conditions of his confinement and are properly brought under Bivens”). The alleged violations took place in Fresno County, which is part of the Fresno Division of…