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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 NEXIS RENE GOMEZ, Case No. 2:20-cv-02259-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER UNKNOWN, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff is a state inmate proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He moves for the court to appoint him counsel for the limited purpose of identifying the unknown defendant. ECF No. 22. Plaintiff alleges in his complaint that an unknown individual, who is only known to him as a “scheduler” who worked at High Desert State Prison between January and February 2012, delayed his medical care in violation of the Eighth Amendment. ECF No. 1. When I screened plaintiff’s complaint, I ordered the Clerk of Court to provide plaintiff with a signed subpoena form to request documents from a non-party so that plaintiff could seek documents identifying the unknown defendant. I instructed plaintiff to file a motion substituting in the named individual defendant if he successfully…