Hessmer v. Miranda

How courts have described this case

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• holding that indigent civil litigants, as opposed to indigent criminal defendants, do not have a statutory or constitutional right to court-appointed counsel.
• observing that, in most instances, “[i]ndigent civil litigants, unlike indigent criminal defendants, possess neither a constitutional nor statutory right to court-appointed assistance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).