UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------x GARRAH GILOT,

Plaintiff, MEMORANDUM & ORDER - against - 25-CV-6953 (PKC) (PK)

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL,

Defendant. -------------------------------------------------------x PAMELA K. CHEN, United States District Judge: Pro se Plaintiff Farrah Gilot filed this action pursuant to

. Plaintiff asserts that she was “abused” and “kicked out” of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York, in violation of the Americans with Disability Act. (Compl., Dkt. 1, at ECF1 5–6.) She further asserts that St. Joseph’s Hospital violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) by placing false information into her medical records. (See

at ECF 6.) Plaintiff applied to waive the filing fees by filing an application to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). (IFP Mot., Dkt. 2.) For the reasons stated herein, the Court transfers this action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. DISCUSSION If an action is filed in the wrong district court, a court “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.”

(a); see, e.g., Covial v. Francillion, No. 24-CV-3125,

, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. May 28, 2024). A civil action may be brought in: (1) “a judicial district

1 Citations to “ECF” refer to the pagination generated by the Court’s CM/ECF docketing system and not the document’s internal pagination. in which any defendant resides, if all defendants are residents of the State in which the district is located”; “a judicial district in which a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or a substantial part of property that is the subject of the action is situated”; or (3) “if there is no district in which an action may otherwise be brought as provided in this section, any

judicial district in which any defendant is subject to the court’s personal jurisdiction with respect to such action.”

(b). Here, because Defendant resides in Syracuse, and Plaintiff does not allege that the events or omissions underlying her claim arose in this judicial district, transfer of this action to the Northern District of New York is appropriate. See Colacino v. Davis, No. 19 CV 9648 (VB),

, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. July 28, 2020) (“Because defendant resides in, and a substantial part of the events giving rise to plaintiffs’ claims occurred within, the Western District of New York, in the interest of justice, the Court will transfer this case to the Western District of New York.”). CONCLUSION The Clerk of Court is hereby directed to transfer this action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

(b), 1406(a). No summons shall

issue from this Court. A decision on plaintiff’s request to proceed IFP is reserved for the transferee court. The provision of Rule 83.1 of the Local Rules of the Eastern District of New York, which requires a seven-day delay, is waived. This order closes this action in this Court. SO ORDERED. /s/ Pamela K. Chen Pamela K. Chen United States District Judge Dated: December 23, 2025 Brooklyn, New York