Smith v. United States Bureau of Prisons

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding it “in the interest of justice and judicial economy to transfer the case to the Central District of California,” where immediate custodian of habeas petitioner was located
• transferring habeas matter challenging parole determinations, from the District of Columbia to the Central District of California – where petitioner was incarcerated at the time of filing and where the warden was located
• “[W]hile the petitioner has named the United States Bureau of Prisons as the respondent, the correct respondent to a habeas petition is the warden where the prisoner is located.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).