Muinoz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ALFONSO BOBBY CANTU RAMIREZ, No. 2:19-cv-0309 CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER HOPE MUINOZ, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff has filed another motion requesting the appointment of counsel. (ECF No. 26.) The motion is made on the same form as his previous motion and now states that he has a sixth- grade education rather than a tenth-grade education. (Compare ECF No. 20 with ECF No. 26.) He further states that he got an E. coli infection that “really messed up [his] health,” that his PICC line was removed a day too soon, and that the CDCR is to blame for his bad health. (ECF No. 26.) The United States Supreme Court has ruled that district courts lack authority to require counsel to represent indigent prisoners in § 1983 cases. Mallard v. United States Dist. Court, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). In certain exceptional circumstances, the district court may request the voluntary assistance of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). …