Bolden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIE BOLDEN, Case No. 22-cv-02059-PJH Plaintiff,

v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S

MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF

KATHLEEN ALLISON, et al., COUNSEL Defendants. Re: Dkt. No. 11

13 Plaintiff’s pro se civil rights case alleges that Defendants were involved in the decision to transfer over 100 prisoners, some of whom were infected with COVID-19, from the California Institute for Men (CIM) to San Quentin State Prison (SQSP) around May 26, 2020, resulting in a COVID-19 outbreak at SQSP. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel (Dkt. No. 11). 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25 (1981); Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997) (no constitutional right to counsel in § 1983 action), withdrawn in part on other grounds…