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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RODERICK WILLIAM LEAR, Case No. 1:21-cv-00600-NONE-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT

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v. (ECF No. 27) NAVARRO, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Roderick William Lear (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner 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 motion to appoint counsel, filed December 17, 2021. (ECF No. 27.) In his motion, Plaintiff states that he is suffering from multiple medical injuries which affect his writing (carpal tunnel syndrome and pinched nerves in his neck along with bulging discs in spine that affect turning his neck). It is difficult for Plaintiff to write more than four or five words and sometimes single letters without stopping. Plaintiff also has multiple lower spinal injuries, and he is currently housed in the prison’s infirmary due to his injuries. Plaintiff states that due to these facts it is physically…