Hammoudeh

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH LEE TAYLOR,

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

S. HAMMOUDEH, et al.,

10 Defendants.

On May 6, 2021, the Court denied Plaintiff’s first motion for appointment of counsel. Dkt. 31. Before the Court is Plaintiff’s second request for appointment of counsel. Dkt. 33. 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Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997) (no constitutional right to counsel in section 1983 action), withdrawn in part on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 154 F.3d 952 (9th Cir. 1998) (en banc).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 circumstances,” the…