Hunter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOHN DOUGLAS HUNTER, Case No. 14-cv-05031-JST

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING FURTHER

v. REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT OF

PRO BONO COUNSEL

MIKE SOKOLOFF, et al., Re: ECF No. 130 Defendants.

12 On May 1, 2019, the Court appointed attorneys from Durie Tangri LLP as pro bono counsel for Plaintiff John Douglas Hunter. ECF No. 108. Several months later, Durie Tangri filed a motion to withdraw as counsel, ECF No. 127, and Hunter filed a “motion requesting the denial of the withdrawal of the law firm Durie Tangri as pro-bono appointments unless the Court substitutes counsel for Plaintiff,” ECF No. 130. Both motions were referred to Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler for resolution. ECF Nos. 128, 131. Judge Beeler granted Durie Tangri’s motion to withdraw and denied Hunter’s motion as to Durie Tangri’s withdrawal. ECF No. 144. She construed the remainder of Hunter’s motion “as a motion for the court to appoint him new pro-bono counsel”; set deadlines…