Stark

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 COLLETTE STARK, Case No.: 19-CV-1897-CAB-WVG

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR

v. APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

FUSION CONSULTING SERVICES #2, LLC, [Doc. No. 9] 15 Defendant. 16 17 Martin S. Heinman, a non-lawyer who represents that he is somehow affiliated with Defendant Fusion Consulting Services #2, LLC (“Fusion”), has filed a request for appointment of counsel in this case. Because Heinman himself is not a party to this case, he does not need counsel personally. As for Fusion, “there is no absolute right to counsel in civil proceedings,” Hedges v. Resolution Tr. Corp., 32 F.3d 1360, 1363 (9th Cir. 1994), and regardless, “there is no authority allowing this court to appoint counsel for a corporation in a civil matter.” TI Beverage Grp. Ltd. v. S.C. Cramele Recas SA, No. LA CV 06-07793-VBF, 2014 WL 1795042, at *9 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 1, 2014) (citations omitted); see…