(PS) Trotter v. Sacramento Housing Program

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United States District Court, Eastern District of CaliforniaOctober 14, 20222:22-cv-01552California213 words

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 || CUPID MONIQUE TROTTER, No. 2:22—cv—1552-KJM-KJN PS Plaintiff, ORDER V. (ECF No. 4.) SACRAMENTO HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff requests counsel be appointed for her civil case. It is “well-established that there 18 || is generally no constitutional right to counsel in civil cases.” United States v. Sardone, 94 F.3d 1233, 1236 (9th Cir. 1996). The court is sympathetic to the difficulties faced by unrepresented 20 || litigants in federal court, but has extremely limited resources to appoint attorneys in civil cases. There are no exceptional circumstances warranting the appointment of counsel in this case, and 22 plaintiffs claim is not unusually complex and can be reasonably articulated by a pro se plaintiff. 23 || See Agyeman v. Corr. Corp. of Am., 390 F.3d 1101, 1103 (9th Cir. 2004). Thus, plaintiff's 24 motion for appointment of counsel (ECF No. 4) 1s…

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