Daram

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DONALD RAY BOWCUT, No. 2:21-cv-0736 DB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER VASUKI DARAM, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel, with a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Presently before the court is plaintiff’s motion to compel defendants to participate in an Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) settlement conference (ECF No. 21) and motion to appoint counsel (ECF No. 22). MOTION TO COMPEL ADR SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE Plaintiff requests that the court “compel defendants to attend the court ordered ‘ADR’” on the grounds that a settlement conference may help avoid some of the “economic burdens and delays” litigation can impose. (ECF No. 21 at 1-2.) The court previously ordered this action stayed in order to conduct an ADR settlement conference. (ECF No. 14.) Defendants later filed a motion to opt out on the basis that after reviewing “[p]laintiff’s claims, the…