Scalia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CARL JOHNSON, Case No. 1:18-cv-00061-DAD-JDP

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT

COUNSEL

v. ECF No. 25 J. SCALIA, A. FRITZ,

B. HACKWORTH, J. CAMPOS, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO COMPEL

A. ARANDA, and DOES 1-4, DISCOVERY

Defendants. ECF No.

ORDER DIRECTING RESPONSE TO

SETTLEMENT REQUEST

THIRTY-DAY DEADLINE

19 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pending before the court are plaintiff’s motions to appoint counsel, ECF No. 25, to compel discovery, ECF No. 26, and to refer the case for settlement, ECF No. 28. We address each in turn below. I. Appointment of Counsel Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, see Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), withdrawn in part on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 154 F.3d 952 (9th…