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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 PRENTICE RAY THOMAS, Case No. 1:22-cv-01492-ADA-BAM Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR

APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL WITHOUT

v. PREJUDICE B. WEAVER, et al., (Doc. 16) Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Prentice Ray Thomas, a county jail inmate proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, initiated this civil rights action on November 18, 2022. (Doc. 1.) Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel. Plaintiff requests counsel due to his dyslexia, asserting that “it stands in the way of” him articulating his claims. (Doc. 16.) Plaintiff does not have the constitutional right to appointment of counsel in a civil action. See Palmer v. Valdez, 560 F.3d 965, 970 (9th Cir. 2009) (“Generally, a person has no right to counsel in civil actions.”); see also Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), rev’d in part on other grounds, 154 F.3d 952, 954 n.1 (9th Cir. 1998). The Court…