Coltrane v. Lappin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that it is “common in this Circuit” to transfer the entirety of the case when some but not all claims are improperly venued here
• declining to exercise pendent jurisdiction over Bivens claims based on jurisdictional hook of properly-venued FTCA claims, and transferring entire matter to another district
• applying this principle to consider venue as to Bivens claims separately from other claims in the complaint
• favoring “transfer . . . over dismissal” where “plaintiff [was] proceeding pro se”
• choosing to transfer in light of concerns that the Court was an inappropriate forum, plaintiff was proceeding pro se, and the fact that “this lawsuit has no discernible connection to the District of Columbia”
• “[T]ransfer is particularly \favored over dismissal when the plaintiff is proceeding pro se.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).