Reddy
(PC) Lipsey v. Reddy
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER LIPSEY, Jr., Case No. 2:17-cv-01434-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTS AND TO
v. APPOINT COUNSEL REDDY, et al., ECF No. 80. Defendants. 16 Plaintiff has filed a notice of his intent to take defendants’ deposition. ECF No. 80. In that filing, plaintiff asks that be appointed counsel and provided “his necessary legal files” to complete the depositions. Id. at 3. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, see Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the court lacks the authority to require an
1 Plaintiff is advised that to depose defendants, he must serve each defendant with a written notice that states the time and place of the deposition. Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b). The notice that he filed with the court does not suffice to notice defendants’ depositions. He is also warned that the in…