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N.D. Cal.Procedural orderFiled Oct. 28, 2025

Miessek v. Kingdom

Judge
Kandis Westmore
Docket
4:25-cv-09332
Court
U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
Pages
2
Civil ProcedurePro Se
In one sentence

In Tonne L. Miessek v. Marine Kingdom, Judge Boone transferred the case to the Northern District of California because venue appeared proper there.

Who this affects

Tonne L. Miessek and the defendants in the case are affected by the transfer from the Eastern District of California to the Northern District of California; the order does not resolve the underlying claims.

What happened

Tonne L. Miessek v. Marine Kingdom, et al. is a civil-rights case filed by Miessek without a lawyer. The complaint invoked federal-question jurisdiction.

The court said the only defendant discussed in the complaint resides in Marin County, California, and that the central alleged events occurred there. Marin County is within the Northern District of California.

Judge Stanley A. Boone ordered the case transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under the federal venue statute. The order did not decide the underlying claims.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Miessek v. Kingdom · No. 4:25-cv-09332
Judge
Kandis Westmore
Date
Oct. 28, 2025

Background

Tonne L. Miessek filed a civil-rights complaint without a lawyer and invoked federal-question jurisdiction. The complaint alleged that Miessek “was wrongfully bartered, traded or sold in 1996 at Marin County.”

Venue Analysis

The court applied 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b), the federal venue statute. It stated that the only defendant discussed in the complaint resides in Marin County, California, and that the complaint’s seemingly central factual allegation concerned events in Marin County. Because Marin County is within the Northern District of California, the court concluded that the case should have been filed there.

Disposition

Under 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a), a federal court may transfer a case filed in the wrong district when doing so serves the interests of justice. Judge Stanley A. Boone ordered that the matter be transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The order transferred the case and did not decide the merits of Miessek’s claims.

The authoritative version

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