Newsom
(PC) Lawrence v. Newsom
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RISHARDO LAWRENCE, Case No. 22-cv-05056-KAW
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING REQUEST TO
v. RETAIN CASE IN THE NORTHERN
DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 3 Defendants.
12 Plaintiff Rishardo Lawrence is an inmate at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California. (Compl. at 1, Dkt. No. 1.) On September 6, 2022, Plaintiff filed the instant complaint for retirement damages and failure to grant a medical parole hearing for Plaintiff. On September 16, 2022, Plaintiff filed a “Request to Retain Case in the Northern District San Francisco,” arguing that the case should not be refiled in the Eastern District of California because “the Eastern District is overcome by the volume of cases filed by inmates in the CSP Solano and CSP-CMF prisons.” (Dkt. No. 3.) Venue generally is proper in a judicial district in which: (1) any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of the state in which the…