Morris

Real party in interest, G. Daniel Walker, is a state prison inmate who has instituted a civil proceeding in propria persona in superior court challenging aspects of the conditions of his confinement. The issue here is whether in the civil proceeding Walker’s pro se status entitles him *563 to designate his wife as his legal representative under a Department of Corrections rule governing visitation and consultation of attorneys with inmates (Cal. Admin. Code, tit. 15, § 3175; all section references hereafter are to tit. 15, Cal. Admin. Code). We hold that he is not.

Walker is confined in the security housing unit at Folsom Prison. During a two-week period he submitted more than 100 administrative appeals to prison officials. The Department of Corrections (Department) advised Walker by letter he was abusing the prison appeal procedure and that only one such appeal would be processed per week. Walker then filed a civil proceeding in respondent superior court (Sacramento County No. 303436) seeking a writ of mandate to compel the warden, other prison officials and the Department to process all his administrative appeals. In the superior court civil proceeding he applied to…