Peoples
Peoples v. Machuca
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
TIMOTHY PEOPLES,
Case No. 19-cv-05468-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S v. MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL; AND GRANTING HIS RAUL MACHUCA, et al., REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE AN OPPOSITION Defendants.
Plaintiff has filed a motion for appointment of counsel. Dkt. 66. Plaintiff requests that the Court appoint counsel because he is unable to afford counsel, the issues presented are complex, he is unable to access to confidential “defendants’ peace officer records” without an “in-camera hearing,” he cannot effectively litigate his case, and he has limited knowledge of the law. Id. at 1. However, there is no constitutional right to counsel in a civil case. Lassiter v. Dep’t of Social 16 Services, 452 U.S. 18, 25 (1981). 28 U.S.C. § 1915 confers on a district court only the power to 17 “request” that counsel represent a…