Sheriff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROMMEL D. MEDINA VASQUEZ, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-00557-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND v. ) MOTION FOR APPOINMENT OF COUNSEL,

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

SHERIFF, et al., ) ) [ECF No. 14] Defendants. ) ) ) ) )

Plaintiff Rommel D. Medina Vasquez is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s second motion for appointment of counsel, filed on August 28, 2020. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the court cannot require any attorney to represent plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). However, in certain exceptional…