Brewer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 EDWARD ANDROSHCHUK, Case No. 2:23-cv-00792-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER M. BREWER, et al., Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a state inmate proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed two motions asking the court to appoint him counsel and a motion asking the court to reconsider denying his previous request for counsel.1 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 attorney to represent plaintiff. See Mallard v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for the S. Dist. of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). The court can request the voluntary assistance of counsel. See 28 U.S.C.

1 Plaintiff has also inquired whether the court received his payment for the filing fee, ECF 26 No. 18 at 1, and has requested a copy of the complaint because he lost his copy when…