Adams

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PAUL ADAMS, et al., Case No. 20-cv-01325-JSC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v. 9 (ECF Nos. 2, 3) GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants.

12 Plaintiffs, California prisoners proceeding pro se, filed this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs are located at the California Correctional Institute (“CCI”) in Tehachapi, California. They seek to represent a class of all inmates in state prison and in county jails throughout California. They claim that housing inmates in bunkbeds violates the federal constitution. They name two defendants, the Governor of California and the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, both of whom are located in Sacramento, California. Tehachapi, in Kern County, and Sacramento lie within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84. When, as here, jurisdiction is not founded on diversity, venue is proper in the district in which (1) any defendant resides, if all of the…