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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 DEAN MARTIN SEALEY, Case No. 1:23-cv-00253-ADA-EPG Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT

PRO BONO COUNSEL

v. (ECF No. 29) DUSTIN FAGUNDES, et al.,

Defendants. 15 16 Plaintiff Dean Martin Sealey is a state prisoner appearing pro se in this civil rights action 17 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case proceeds on Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment conditions of 18 confinement claims against Defendants Steve Souza and Dustin Fagundes. (ECF Nos. 11, 25). 19 Now before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to appoint pro bono counsel. (ECF No. 29). As grounds, Plaintiff states that he is incarcerated and cannot afford an attorney. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), withdrawn in part on other grounds, 154 F.3d 952 (9th Cir. 1998), and the Court cannot require an attorney to represent Plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. United States District Court…