Warren

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN HARDNEY, Case No. 2:16-cv-00172-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO APPOINT COUNSEL AND

v. TO SET THIS CASE FOR A FURTHER

SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

R. WARREN, et al., ECF Nos. 145 & 149 Defendants.

16 17 Plaintiff is a state inmate proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He has filed a motion asking that he be appointed counsel and that this case be set for a second settlement conference. ECF Nos. 145 & 149. The undersigned has reviewed the docket and believes that at this time a settlement conference would be unlikely to be productive. Accordingly, plaintiff’s request to set another settlement conference, ECF No. 149, is denied without prejudice. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, see Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the court lacks the authority to require an…