(PC) Long v. United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KEVIN MICHAEL LONG, Case No. 1:23-cv-01117-ADA-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT
COUNSEL
v. (ECF No. 8) UNITED STATES, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Kevin Michael Long (“Plaintiff”) is a county jail inmate proceeding pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to appoint counsel, filed August 23, 2023. (ECF No. 8.) Plaintiff states only that he requests appointment of counsel for defense in this case. (Id.) Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, 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), and the court cannot require an attorney to represent plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. U.S. Dist. Court for the S. Dist. of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). However, in certain exceptional circumstances the court…