Adams

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 PAUL ADAMS, et al., Case No. 20-cv-01325-JSC

8 Plaintiffs,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v. 9 (ECF Nos. 2, 3) 10 GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants. 11

12 13 Plaintiffs, California prisoners proceeding pro se, filed this civil rights action under 42 14 U.S.C. § 1983.1 Plaintiffs are located at the California Correctional Institute (“CCI”) in 15 Tehachapi, California. They seek to represent a class of all inmates in state prison and in county 16 jails throughout California. They claim that housing inmates in bunkbeds violates the federal 17 constitution. They name two defendants, the Governor of California and the Secretary of the 18 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, both of whom are located in Sacramento, 19 California. Tehachapi, in Kern County, and Sacramento lie within the venue of the Eastern 20 District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84. 21 When, as here, jurisdiction is not founded on diversity, venue is proper in the district in 22 which (1) any defendant resides, if all of the…