Harris
Harris v. Dulgov
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SHAWANA D. HARRIS, Case No. 24-cv-00321-TLT
Petitioner,
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
v.
A. DULGOV, Respondent.
12 I. INTRODUCTION Petitioner, a federal prisoner housed at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Dublin, California, at the time of filing, and proceeding without representation by an attorney, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 challenging the conditions of her confinement and lack of adequate medical care. She paid the $5.00 filing fee. FCI Dublin has since been closed, and petitioner has been transferred. For the reasons discussed below, the 19 1 District courts within the Ninth Circuit are split as to whether courts continue to have jurisdiction 20 over section 2241 federal habeas petitions—where jurisdiction was appropriate at the time of filing based on the petitioner’s district of confinement—when a prisoner is transferred to a facility 21 in a different district during the pendency of the petition. See, e.g., Long v. Baltazar, No.…