Leroy Cook v. V. Lee Bounds, Com. Dept. Corrections

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that appointment of counsel for an indigent in a civil action should be allowed only in exceptional circumstances
• holding that a denial of a plaintiff’s request for appointment of counsel constitutes an abuse of the court’s discretion only if the plaintiff’s case presents “exceptional circumstances”
• explaining that the court may only request that an attorney represent an indigent plaintiff when “exceptional circumstances” exist
• explaining that “in civil actions the appointment of counsel should be allowed only in exceptional cases”
• noting that the appointment of counsel in civil actions “should be allowed only in exceptional cases”
• noting that appointment of counsel “should be allowed only in exceptional cases”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).