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- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01079_de92 RegisterActionDate "2019-05-28" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01079_de92 RegisterActionDescriptionText "TEXT ORDER Entered by Judge Colin Stirling Bruce on 5/28/19. Plaintiff's motion to request counsel 70 is DENIED. Plaintiff asks the Court to ignore precedent by which it is bound and to hold that a civil litigant has a Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The Court declines Plaintiffs invitation to do so. As Plaintiff implicitly recognizes, 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."). Plaintiff claims that he suffers from a mental disability that makes it difficult to litigate this case himself, but he has offered no evidence of his disability or evidence that his alleged disability makes it impossible for him to litigate this case himself. Plaintiff appears to be literate; his claim has survived a merit review; he has filed cogent pleadings with the Court; and he has successfully prosecuted an appeal with the Seventh Circuit. Furthermore, Plaintiff has personal knowledge of the facts supporting his deliberate indifference claim and appears capable of cross-examining Defendants regarding their version of the events. Johnson v. Doughty, 433 F.3d 1001, 1006 (7th Cir. 2006). Plaintiff has offered no reason why he cannot litigate this case or why his case differs from any other of the plethora of prisoner pro se plaintiffs who ask for the appointment of counsel in almost every case filed. DeWitt, 760 F.3d at 657-58. Plaintiff appears competent to litigate this case himself, and therefore, the Court denies his motion to request counsel. (SKR, ilcd) (Entered: 05/28/2019)" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01079_de92 AdministrativeID "None" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01079_de92 hasReferenceToOtherEntry ilcd;;1:17-cv-01079_de89 @default.