Madden

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DOUGLAS LEE HOPPER, Case No. 2:21-cv-00985-JDP (PC) 12 Plaintiff, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

13 v.

14 MADDEN, PALACIOS, BRACAMONTE,

AND GRAVES

15 Defendants. 16

17 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, initially filed this action as a habeas 18 petition in the Southern District of California. See ECF Nos. 1 & 2. The Southern District 19 transferred the action to this court after finding that plaintiff (petitioner at that time) was confined 20 in this district. ECF No. 2-1 at 2. After the case was transferred, however, this action was 21 converted into a section 1983 case. ECF No. 22. That new action primarily sues defendants 22 employed at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California.1 Id. at 2. 23 The federal venue statute requires that a civil action, other than one based on diversity 24 jurisdiction, be brought only in “(1) a judicial district where any defendant resides, if all 25 26 1 The action also names one…