Hammoudeh

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH LEE TAYLOR,

Case No. 21-cv-01159-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR v. APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

S. HAMMOUDEH, et al.,

10 Defendants.

Plaintiff has filed a motion for appointment of counsel to represent him in this action. Dkt. 29. He names a prisoner rights lawyer named Charles Francis Carbone, who “is interested and willing to be appointed to this case.” Id. at 1. There is no constitutional right to counsel in a civil case unless an indigent litigant may lose his physical liberty if he loses the litigation. See Lassiter v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 452 U.S. 18, 25 (1981); Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997) (no constitutional right to counsel in § 1983 action), withdrawn in part on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 154 F.3d 952 (9th Cir. 1998) (en banc). The court may ask counsel to represent an indigent litigant under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 only in “exceptional…