Fayed

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JAMES MICHAEL FAYED, Case No. 21-cv-08206-JST

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING RENEWED

v. REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT OF

COUNSEL

RON DAVIS, Re: ECF No. 41 Defendant.

12 Plaintiff, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison (“SQSP”) has filed a pro se action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Now pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s fourth request for appointment of counsel. ECF No. 41. The Court denied Plaintiff’s prior requests for appointment of counsel for lack of exceptional circumstances. ECF Nos. 24, 40. Plaintiff has filed a renewed request for appointment of counsel, arguing that counsel is warned because his circumstances have changed significantly. ECF No. 41. Specifically, Plaintiff reports that he has recently been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which results in flare-ups where he sometimes falls and hurts himself; requires him to take medications that have side effects, including weakness, fatigue, decline in mental capacity;…