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- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01057_de157 RegisterActionDate "2018-04-18" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01057_de157 RegisterActionDescriptionText "TEXT ORDER entered by Judge Colin Stirling Bruce on 4/18/18. Plaintiff's motion for leave to file a motion to request counsel 128 is GRANTED. Technically, Plaintiff did not need leave of the Court to file his motion requesting counsel, but Plaintiff has asked and, so, permission is granted. Accordingly, the Clerk of the Court is directed to file Plaintiff's motion for counsel and exhibits that are attached to his motion for leave to file. As for his motion for counsel itself, that motion is DENIED. As the Court has previously explained to Plaintiff, the Court does not possess the authority to require an attorney to accept pro bono appointments on civil cases such as this. Pruitt v. Mote, 503 F.3d 647, 653 (7th Cir. 2007). The most that the Court can do is to ask for volunteer counsel. Jackson v. County of McLean, 953 F.2d 1070, 1071 (7th Cir. 1992) (holding that it is a "fundamental premise that indigent civil litigants have no constitutional or statutory right to be represented by counsel in federal court."). In determining whether to attempt to recruit counsel, the Court must consider the litigant's ability to litigate the case himself. Id. Plaintiff has shown a remarkable ability to litigate his claims. Plaintiff has served discovery and has filed several motions to compel in order to obtain the documents that he needs. The Court understands that his incarceration makes it difficult for him to litigate, but his incarceration alone is not sufficient grounds to find counsel. Otherwise, every IDOC inmate would be entitled to the recruitment of counsel based simply upon his or her incarceration status, and that is not the 693C190. (TC, ilcd) (Entered: 04/18/2018)" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01057_de157 AdministrativeID "None" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01057_de157 hasReferenceToOtherEntry ilcd;;1:17-cv-01057_de153 @default.