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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AUDREE CHATMAN, ) Case No.: 1:18-cv-01463-DAD-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND v. ) MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL,

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

H. VERA, ) ) (ECF No. 54) Defendant. ) ) ) ) )

Plaintiff Audree Chatman 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 January 24, 2022. There is no 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 circumstances the court…