UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ANTHONY OLIVER,
Case No. 20-cv-01734-DMR (PR) Plaintiff, ORDER OF TRANSFER v. 9 LARRY A. PELUSO, et al., 10 Defendants.
I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff, who is currently incarcerated at Wilcox State Prison in Abbeville, Georgia, filed this pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkt. 9. Petitioner has also consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction in this action. Dkt. 7. Plaintiff claims that the instant action “arises under various state law claims for violations of defamation of character, intentional tort, and California Business and Profession[s] Code [§] 17200 et seq., and other state law claims.” Dkt. 1 at 1. He further claims that “[j]urisdiction is conferred pursuant to 28 U.S.C. [§] 1332 because the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000.” Id. He also alleges that “[v]enue is proper under 28 U.S.C. [§] 1391 because at least one of the …