Alexander

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA LIAM A., Case No.: 24-cv-0253-AGS-BGS

Plaintiff,

ORDER TRANSFERRING CIVIL

v. ACTION FOR LACK OF PROPER

VENUE

6 SOCIAL SECURITY

ADMINISTRATION,

Defendant. 10 Plaintiff, proceeding without an attorney, seems to have filed his complaint against the Social Security Administration in the wrong court. (See ECF 1.) He lists his county of residence as Los Angeles (see ECF 1-1) and his street address in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County (see ECF 1, at 1). Nothing connects his case to this District. Plaintiff has the burden of “proving that venue is proper in the district in which the suit was initiated.” Airola v. King, 505 F. Supp. 30, 31 (D. Ariz. 1980). The court itself may raise venue defects when the defendant has not yet filed a responsive pleading and the time for doing so has not run. Costlow v. Weeks, 790 F.2d 1486, 1488 (9th Cir. 1986). A “civil action may be brought in–(1) a judicial…