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                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT



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          No. 96-1756



                              DOUG KING AND CHERYL KING,

                               Plaintiffs, Appellants,



                                          v.



                                     GREGG KING,

                                 Defendant, Appellee.



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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE



                   [Hon. Shane Devine, Senior U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before



                                Selya, Circuit Judge,
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                            Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,
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                              and Boudin, Circuit Judge.
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               Donald E.  Gardner, with  whom Dyana  J. Crahan  and Devine,
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          Millimet  & Branch  Professional Association  were on  brief, for
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          appellants.

               Mitchell P. Utell, with  whom Thomas, Utell, Van De  Water &
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          Raiche was on brief, for appellee.
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                                  December 10, 1996



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                    Per Curiam.  Having reviewed the record, considered the
                    Per Curiam.
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          parties'  briefs, and  entertained  oral argument,  we are  fully



          persuaded  that the court below neither  abused its discretion in



          denying  the plaintiffs'  belated motion  to amend  the complaint



          (made roughly a  year after  discovery had closed)  nor erred  in



          granting summary judgment in  favor of the defendant.   Since the



          reasons underlying these rulings  are adequately illumined in the



          district  court's opinion,  see King  v. King,  922 F.  Supp. 700
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          (D.N.H. 1996), we  need go no  further.  Instead,  we affirm  the



          judgment for substantially the reasons elucidated by Judge Devine



          in his well-reasoned rescript.











                    Affirmed.
                    Affirmed.
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