(PS) King v. CA Dept. of Water Resources
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ELISE KING, No. 2:17-cv-1257-MCE-EFB PS Plaintiff, v. ORDER CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, et al., 15 Defendants.
17 The court previously granted plaintiff’s request to proceed in forma pauperis, but 18 dismissed her original complaint with leave to amend pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2).1 19 Plaintiff subsequently filed a first amended complaint (ECF No. 11), as well as a motion for 20 appointment of counsel (ECF No. 12). For the following reasons, plaintiff’s motion for 21 appointment of counsel is denied and some, but not all, of the claims in the amended complaint 22 are dismissed for failure to state a claim.
I. Motion for Appointment of Counsel
24 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1) authorizes the appointment of counsel to represent an indigent 25 civil litigant in certain exceptional circumstances. See Terrell v. Brewer, 935 F.2d 1015, 1017 26 27 This case, in which plaintiff is proceeding in propria persona, was referred to the undersigned under…