Gibbons

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RODNEY JEROME WOMACK, No. 1:19-cv-00615-KES-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL,

v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE W. GIBBONS, et al., (ECF No. 129) Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel, filed January 16, 2025. (ECF No. 129.) Plaintiff requests appointment of counsel to assist him at the settlement conference because he cannot afford a lawyer, he is in prison, has no legal experience, and the medical costs are complex. (ECF No. 129.) Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the court cannot require any attorney to represent plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. United States…