(PC)Evans

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 RICHARD A. EVANS, Case No. 1:22-cv-00026-ADA-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR CHANGE OF VENUE

v. (ECF No. 23) OURIQUE, et al., Defendants. 13 Plaintiff Richard A. Evans (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for a change of venue to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. (ECF No. 23.) “For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented.” 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). “A civil action may be brought in—(1) a judicial district in which any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of the State in which the district is located; [or] (2) a judicial district in which a substantial part…