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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WALTER R. REID, Case No. 1:22-cv-00549-KES-EPG (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

v. REQUESTING THAT THE COURT

APPOINT AN INDEPENDENT MEDICAL

BARRY GREEN, EXPERT

Defendant. (ECF No. 84).

15 16 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Walter R. Reid is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case proceeds on Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment claim against Defendant Green for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, which claim generally stems from Green’s alleged failure to properly treat Plaintiff’s bladder infection. (ECF No. 24, p. 4). Now before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion requesting that the Court appoint an independent medical expert. (ECF No. 84). Plaintiff states that “Defendant Green has presented the Court with expert witness testimony starkly conflicting to the expert treatment and record keeping of…