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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WALLACE WENDELL VAUGHN, Case No. 1:18-cv-01329-AWI-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT

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v. (ECF No. 48) JONES, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Wallace Wendell Vaughn (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action proceeds on Plaintiff’s first amended complaint against Defendants Jones and Carpenter for deliberate indifference to safety and to serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to appoint counsel, filed April 5, 2020. (ECF No. 48.) In his motion, Plaintiff states that the litigation has become very contentious and given the effects of that contentiousness, he is greatly affected by the stress. The claims which are the basis of this litigation are complex, and require a trained eye to sort out the various legal and factual issues at trial, and to…