Devine

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RAGHVENDRA SINGH, Case No. 1:22-cv-00061-JLT-SAB (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

v. FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL,

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

SHUBHANGINI DEVINE, (ECF No. 24) Defendant.

16 Plaintiff Raghvendra Singh is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel, filed August 15, 2022. Plaintiff seeks appointment of counsel because his “case is unique and complex for many reasons . . .” (ECF No. 24.) 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 may request the voluntary assistance…