Pfeiffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 NARCISO RAMIREZ, No. 1:23-cv-01554-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S THIRD

MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF

v. COUNSEL, WITHOUT PREJUDICE C. PFEIFFER, et al. (ECF No. 19) Defendants. 13 Plaintiff is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s third motion for appointment of counsel, filed January 29, 2024. Plaintiff seeks counsel “to bring into effect an [sic] more accurate defense in litigation procedures of civil law, in the interest of justice.” Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the court cannot require any attorney to represent plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296, 298 (1989). However, in certain…