Dixon v. Warden, Florida State Hospital

• Court: District Court, M.D. Florida
• Decided: June 23, 2025
• Docket: 6:25-cv-01081
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION

DAVION MAGNUS DIXON,

Petitioner,

v. Case No: 6:25-cv-1081-JSS-LHP

JOHN POLISKNOWSKI and SHEVAUN HARRIS,

Respondents. ___________________________________/ ORDER Petitioner, a prisoner proceeding pro se, initiated this action by filing in this district a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. (See Dkt. 1.) Petitioner is committed to the custody of Florida’s Department of Children and Families and confined at the Florida State Hospital in Gadsden County, Florida. (See id. at 1.) Accordingly, he is incarcerated in the Tallahassee Division of the Northern District of Florida. See N.D. Fla. Loc. R. 3.1(A)(3). A section 2241 petition “may be brought only in the district court for the district in which the inmate is incarcerated.” Fernandez v. United States, 941 F.2d 1488, 1495 (11th Cir. 1991); accord Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 442 (2004) (“District courts are limited to granting habeas relief ‘within their respective jurisdictions.’” (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a))). Because Petitioner is incarcerated in the Tallahassee Division of the Northern District of Florida, it is proper to transfer this action to that court. See 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) (“[I]n the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil Accordingly, the Clerk of the Court is DIRECTED to transfer this case to the Tallahassee Division of the Northern District of Florida for all further proceedings. ORDERED in Orlando, Florida, on June 23, 2025.

rhe ie JUFIE S. SNEED UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Copies furnished to: Unrepresented Parties

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