(HC)Shaw

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TIMOTHY SHAW, Case No. 1:22-cv-01291-SAB-HC

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

v.

STEPHANIE CLANDENIN, Respondent.

15 Petitioner is civilly committed to Coalinga State Hospital and proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The habeas statute provides in pertinent part:

Where an application for a writ of habeas corpus is made by a person in custody under the judgment and sentence of a State court of a State which contains two or more Federal judicial districts, the application may be filed in the district court for the district wherein such person is in custody or in the district court for the district within which the State court was held which convicted and sentenced him and each of such district courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the application. The district court for the district wherein such an application is filed in the exercise of its discretion and in…