Sai v. Transportation Security Administration, No. 15-2526 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed a complaint against the Transportation Security Administration and other defendants alleging violations of federal statutes prohibiting discriminatory treatment of disabled persons. The statutory scheme authorizes court appointment of counsel, but the mechanism is subject to the district court’s broad discretion. The district court denied Plaintiff appointed counsel. Plaintiff sought interlocutory review of the decision denying him appointed counsel as a collateral order. The First Circuit dismissed this interlocutory appeal, holding that the factors identified by the Court in Appleby v. Meachum for not categorizing the denial of appointed counsel under 28 U.S.C. 1915(e) as a collateral order also apply to denial of appointed-counsel requested under 42 U.S.C. 2000a-3(a) and 12188(a)(1).
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