Crayton v. Alvarez et al
| Keimon Crayton |
| Alvarez, John Doe and Village of Lansing |
| 2:2026cv02198 |
| July 1, 2026 |
| U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
| Colin Stirling Bruce |
| Eric I Long |
| Civil Rights: Other |
| 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 Civil Rights Act |
| None |
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| Filing 5 NOTICE re 4 Letter. This document has been removed as erroneously filed. (SKR) |
| Filing 4 Document removed as erroneously entered and correctly entered in 26-4085 |
| Remark: Case transferred from Illinois Central has been opened in Northern District of Illinois - CM/ECF NextGen 1.9 (rev. 1.9) as case 1:26-cv-07854, filed 07/06/2026. (JJK) |
Filing 3
TEXT ORDER entered by Chief Judge Colin S. Bruce on 7/2/2026. Pro se Plaintiff Keimon Crayton, a resident of Lansing, Illinois, filed a Complaint #1 against Defendants Village of Lansing, Illinois, and Village of Lansing police officers Alvarez and John Doe, alleging that they trespassed on his property in Lansing without a search warrant and arrested him in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. Lansing, Illinois, is in Cook County, in the Northern District of Illinois. 28 U.S.C. section 93(a)(1). Based on Plaintiff's pleading, the actions at issue in the Complaint all occurred in Lansing, Illinois. There is no connection at all to the Central District of Illinois. Plaintiff has filed his suit in the wrong district. A "district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought." 28 U.S.C. section 1406(a). Although none of the parties have, as of yet, requested a transfer, "a court, where venue is improper, may sua sponte transfer the case to a district where venue is proper, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1406(a)." Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. v. Luckey Logistics, Inc., 2017 WL 2466505, at *7 n.6 (C.D. Ill. June 7, 2017). The court does so here. Because the Northern District is the situs of events, venue is proper in that district. 28 U.S.C. section 1391(b). The court hereby directs the clerk to transfer this matter to the Northern District of Illinois. This case is terminated in the Central District of Illinois. (DS)
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| Case electronically transferred to District of Northern District of Illinois. (DS) |
| Filing 2 MOTION for Leave to Proceed in forma pauperis by Plaintiff Keimon Crayton. Responses due by 7/15/2026 (DW) |
| Filing 1 COMPLAINT against Alvarez, John Doe, Village of Lansing, filed by Keimon Crayton.(DW) |
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