(PC) Anderson v. Kernan
District Court, E.D. California
1Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 HECTOR CLARENCE ANDERSON, 1:19-cv-01048-LJO-SKO (PC) 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL 14 SCOTT KERNAN, et al., (Doc. 16) 15 Defendant. 16 17 18 19 Plaintiff Hector Clarence Anderson is a prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights 20 action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On October 7, 2019, Plaintiff filed a motion seeking the 21 appointment of counsel. (Doc. 16.) Plaintiffs do not have a constitutional right to appointed 22 counsel in section 1983 actions, Rand v. Rowland,
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- Lee A. Rand v. James Rowland Nadim Khoury, M.D. William Bunnell Roy Lee Johnson Leo R. EstesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997