October 24, 1994      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT





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          No. 94-1452

            


                                    VINCENT BOGLE,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                               JOHN T. LIEBEL, ET AL.,

                                Defendants, Appellees.



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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                 [Hon. Frank H. Freedman, Senior U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                               Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                            Selya and Cyr, Circuit Judges.
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               Vincent O. Bogle on brief pro se.
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               Edward  M. Pikula  and  Matroni, DiMauro,  Liebel, Pikula  &
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          deSousa on brief for appellees.
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                 Per  Curiam.    The  district court  properly  dismissed
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            plaintiff's action  for lack of jurisdiction  and for failure

            to state a claim.  We explain briefly.

                 If  the  state   probate  court  incorrectly   concluded

            plaintiff  had been  properly  served, erred  in refusing  to

            order blood tests, improperly  assessed the evidence, or made

            other mistakes,  plaintiff's remedy was to  appeal within the

            state  court system and then petition the Supreme Court for a

            writ of certiorari.  Plaintiff may not litigate these type of

            challenges to the state court proceedings  in a lower federal

            court because  lower  federal  courts  lack  jurisdiction  to

            review  state court  proceedings.   Rooker v.  Fidelity Trust
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            Co.,  263 U.S.  413, 415-16 (1923);  Lancellotti v.  Fay, 909
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            F.2d 15, 17 (1st Cir. 1990).

                 Plaintiff failed  to state  any viable basis  for relief

            under state tort law or federal civil rights laws.  Plaintiff

            did not  identify any unprivileged,  defamatory statement and

            failed   to  allege   either   any  class-based   invidiously

            discriminatory  animus, Hahn  v. Sargent,  523 F.2d  461, 469
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            (1st  Cir.  1975)  (class-based,  invidiously  discriminatory

            animus  required  to state  a claim  under  the portion  of  

            1985(2)   proscribing  conspiracies  to  interfere  with  the

            administration of justice in state courts), cert. denied, 425
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            U.S. 904 (1976), or facts that  would rise to the level of an

            actionable conspiracy.



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                 We have considered all of plaintiff's arguments and have

            found them to be without merit.

                 Affirmed.
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