Whitfield

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN RE WHITFIELD, Case No. 21-cv-06971-PJH

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

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12 This case was opened when plaintiff, an Arkansas state prisoner proceeding pro se, wrote a letter to the court. In an effort to protect his rights, it was filed as a new case. Plaintiff is incarcerated in the Eastern District of Arkansas and raises claims against defendants in that district. He states that the Internal Revenue Service sent to him at his prison his economic impact payment (“EIP”) pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 17 Economic Security Act (The “CARES Act”), Pub. L. No. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281 (2020). 18 He contends that the state passed a law mandating that the EIP to prisoners would first 19 be used to pay court fines, fees and restitution. For relief, plaintiff seeks the full funds he 20 received to appear in his prison account. 21 In Scholl v. Mnuchin, 494 F. Supp. 3d 661 (N.D. Cal. 2020) this court found that 22 the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service could not withhold…