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                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 98-1401



                        ASYA D. ZIMBOVSKY,



                      Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                v.



                  COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,



                       Defendant, Appellee.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS



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







                              Before



                     Boudin, Circuit Judge,

                 Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,

                   and Lynch, Circuit Judge.

                                

                                





     Asya Zimbovsky on brief pro se.

     Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, and Stephen Dick,

Assistant Attorney General, on Motion for Summary Disposition for

appellee.











March 4, 1999







                                

                                



            Per Curiam.  We have carefully reviewed the parties'

    briefs and the record on appeal.  We affirm the district

    court's order of dismissal, dated February 25, 1998,

    essentially for the reasons stated by the court in granting the

    defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint.

              Affirmed.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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