Legal Opinion
Anderson v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 12, 2022No. 7:22-cv-03990Unknown
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Vol JOLindi UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: TAMEEKA ANDERSON, DATE FILED: 09/12/2022 Plaintiff, 22-CV-3990 (NSR) -against- ORDER CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant. NELSON S. ROMAN, United States District Judge: Plaintiff Tameeka Anderson, by application dated September 6, 2022, requests appointment of pro bono counsel. (ECF No. 8.) Unlike in criminal proceedings, the Court does not have the power to obligate attorneys to represent indigent pro se litigants in civil cases. See Mallard v. U.S. Dist. Court for the S. Dist. of Towa,
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