Wheeler

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANDREW VASQUEZ, No. 2:19-cv-1283 TLN AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER EILYA MOGHADDAM, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff requests that the court appoint counsel for trial. ECF No. 85. Plaintiff asserts that he needs counsel because his case is complex and requires a professional to conduct the trial. Id. at 1, 11. Plaintiff states “Plaintiff has done all he can to get counsel on his own but as a in forma pauperis and in pro se litigant in this is a close to unachievable task on my own only with the intervention of the Court to appoint counsel will this meritorious case be given it opportunity to seek justice at jury trial.” Id. at 11 (spelling corrected). District courts lack authority to require counsel to represent indigent prisoners in section 1983 cases. Mallard v. United States Dist. Court, 490 U.S. 296, 298…