(PC) Quarles v. California State Prison Corcoran

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 NIKKO JAVOR QUARLES, Case No. 1:19-cv-00109-AWI-JDP

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTIONS

FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

v. ECF Nos. 8, 9 CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON CORCORAN, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff Nikko Javor Quarles is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 8 and July 11, 2019, plaintiff moved for the appointment of counsel. ECF Nos. 8, 9. Plaintiff submits that he suffers from medical ailments and that other inmates have helped him litigate. 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a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, see Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), withdrawn in part on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 154 F.3d 952 (9th Cir. 1998), and the court lacks the authority to require an attorney to represent plaintiff, see Mallard v. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). This court may request…