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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DANA GRAY, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-01047-DAD-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION v. ) FOR PRESENCE OF “JAILHOUSE LAWYER”

AT HER DEPOSITION

) A.KHOO, et al., ) (ECF No. 68) Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff Dana Gray 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 motion of the presence of his jailhouse lawyer at his deposition, filed March 3, 2022. Plaintiff requests that inmate Donna Anderson be physically present at her deposition. While prisoners do have a constitutional right of access to the courts, see Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 (1977), as well as a “right to receive assistance from other prisoners,” those rights are “conditioned upon a showing that the inmate[ ] in question did not have adequate access to the court 26…