Casey

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 EDDIE FELIX, No. 2:18-cv-3185 KJM AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER JOHN CASEY, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action, has requested appointment of counsel and/or an extension of time to have counsel appointed to him off the court’s pro bono attorney list. ECF No. 53 at 1-3. In support of the motion, plaintiff states in part that he cannot “meet the demands” in defendant Casey’s reply to his opposition to defendant Casey’s motion for summary judgment; that he is unable to afford counsel; that the prison law library is antiquated; that he has no formal legal training, and that English is his second language. Id. at 2. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that district courts lack authority to require counsel to represent indigent prisoners in § 1983 cases. Mallard v. United States Dist. Court, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). In certain exceptional circumstances,…