Jama v. King County Police

Opinion

THE HONORABLE JOHN C. COUGHENOUR 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 9 MAHAMED ALI JAMA, CASE NO. C21-1151-JCC 10 Plaintiff, MINUTE ORDER 11 v. 12 KING COUNTY POLICE, et al., 13 Defendants. 14

15 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable John C. 16 Coughenour, United States District Judge: 17 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s motion to appoint counsel (Dkt. No. 7). 18 There is no general right to have counsel appointed in cases brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 19 Campbell v. Burt, 141 F.3d 927, 931 (9th Cir. 1998). The Court may do so in “exceptional 20 circumstances,” but only upon a determination of a likelihood of success on the merits. Agyeman 21 v. Corrections Corp. of Am., 390 F.3d 1101, 1103 (9th Cir. 2004). Based upon its review of 22 Plaintiff’s proposed complaint (Dkt. No. 1-1), the Court cannot make this determination in this 23 instance. 24 Accordingly, Plaintiff’s motion to appoint counsel (Dkt. No. 7) is DENIED. 25 // 26 // 1 DATED this 22nd day of October 2021. Ravi Subramanian 2 Clerk of Court 3 s/Sandra Rawski 4 Deputy Clerk 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26