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                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 98-1452



                       MONROE A. LAREMORE,



                      Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                v.



                 KENNETH S. APFEL, COMMISSIONER,

                 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION,



                       Defendant, Appellee.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS



         [Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                     Torruella, Chief Judge,

               Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges.

                                

                                





     Monroe A. Laremore on brief pro se.

     Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney and Michael J.

Pineault, Assistant U.S. Attorney on brief for appellee.











November 5, 1998







                                

                                





            Per Curiam.  Appellant Monroe A. Laremore filed a

    complaint in the Massachusetts federal district court seeking

    review of the decision of appellee Commissioner of Social

    Security that appellant was not entitled to Social Security

    disability benefits.  The district court granted the

    Commissioner's motion to dismiss on the ground that appellant

    had not exhausted his administrative remedies.  Specifically,

    appellant had failed to request a hearing before an

    administrative law judge.  Because appellant does not dispute

    this and because his case does not come within any exceptions

    to the exhaustion requirement, the district court lacked

    subject matter jurisdiction and properly dismissed the

    complaint.  See generally Doyle v. Secretary of Health and

    Human Services, 848 F.2d 296 (1st Cir. 1988); Wilson v.

    Secretary of Health and Human Services, 671 F.2d 673 (1st Cir.

    1982).

              The judgment of the district court is summarilyaffirmed.  See Local Rule 27.1.  All pending motions are deniedas moot. 

    

    

    

    

    

    

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