Yule

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 CURTIS SNOWDEN, III, No. 2:17-cv-2167 TLN AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER M. YULE, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with this civil rights action alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. Pending is plaintiff’s seventh request for appointment of counsel. ECF No. 73. Plaintiff states that his “jailhouse lawyer” is scheduled to be released from the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on December 28, 2020, which will leave plaintiff without the assistance he has depended on to pursue this case. Plaintiff avers that he is ill-equipped to pursue this case on his own, due to its factual and legal complexities and plaintiff’s major depressive and bipolar disorders, which support his placement in CDCR’s Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP). Plaintiff emphasizes that his Eighth Amendment claim requires presenting proof of defendants’…