Hill v. Leeana
- Yvonne Rogers
- 4:24-cv-07163
- U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
- 2
In Hill v. Leeana, Judge Peterson transferred the civil-rights case to the Northern District of California because venue belonged there.
CYMEYON V. HILL's case was moved from the Eastern District of California to the Northern District of California, where the defendants and alleged events were located according to the opinion.
What happened
CYMEYON V. HILL sued LEEANA and others under a federal civil-rights law. Hill is confined at Napa State Hospital and is representing himself. He had not paid the filing fee or requested permission to proceed without paying it.
The opinion says the defendants were located in Napa County and that the claim arose there. Napa County is in the Northern District of California, so the case was filed in the wrong federal district.
Judge Jeremy D. Peterson ordered the case transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The order addressed venue and did not decide the underlying civil-rights claims.
The detailed version
- Hill v. Leeana · No. 4:24-cv-07163
- Yvonne Rogers
- Oct. 9, 2024
Background
CYMEYON V. HILL, who is confined at Napa State Hospital and proceeding without a lawyer, filed a civil-rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against LEEANA and other defendants. Hill had not paid the filing fee and had not submitted an application to proceed without prepaying that fee under 28 U.S.C. § 1915.
Venue
The court applied the federal venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). The opinion states that the defendants were located in Napa County and that the claim arose there. Because Napa County is in the Northern District of California, the court determined that the action should have been filed in that district.
Ruling
Judge Jeremy D. Peterson ordered that the matter be transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a). The order resolved the filing-location issue and did not reach the merits of Hill's civil-rights claims. The opinion's header identifies the issuing court as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; the supplied case metadata identifies the court as the Northern District of California and names a different judge.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.