Jones v. DeJoy
Jones v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General United States Postal Service (Pacific Area) Agency
- Haywood Gilliam
- 4:21-cv-02849
- U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
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In Jones v. DeJoy, Judge Gilliam denied Jones’s renewed motion to appoint counsel because the relevant circumstances had not meaningfully changed.
Kyung Sook Jones, whose motion to appoint counsel was denied.
What happened
In Jones v. DeJoy, Kyung Sook Jones asked the court to appoint a lawyer. The court had denied an earlier request on November 1, 2021.
The court considered three factors: Jones’s financial resources, her efforts to find a lawyer, and whether her claim had merit. It found that the analysis of those factors had not meaningfully changed since the earlier denial.
Judge Haywood Gilliam again denied Jones’s motion to appoint counsel.
The detailed version
- Jones v. DeJoy · No. 4:21-cv-02849
- Haywood Gilliam
- Jan. 7, 2022
Background
Kyung Sook Jones filed a motion asking the court to appoint counsel. The court had denied her previous motion to appoint counsel on November 1, 2021.
Legal standard
The court applied the three factors identified by the Ninth Circuit for deciding whether to appoint counsel: the plaintiff’s financial resources, the plaintiff’s efforts to obtain counsel, and whether the plaintiff’s claim has merit.
Ruling
The court found that its analysis of those three factors had not meaningfully changed since the previous denial. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. therefore again denied Jones’s motion to appoint counsel.
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