Filed: Jan. 19, 2001
Latest Update: Feb. 21, 2020
Summary: STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ET AL.and Stahl, Circuit Judge.Celeste Bourgeois on brief pro se., Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General and J.O.Special Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees.January 10, 2001, Per Curiam.subpoenas quashed is harmless at best.
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION–NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 99-2129
CELESTE BOURGEOIS,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ET AL.,
Defendants, Appellees.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
[Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Boudin, Circuit Judge,
Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,
and Stahl, Circuit Judge.
Celeste Bourgeois on brief pro se.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General and J.O. Alston,
Special Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees.
January 10, 2001
Per Curiam. After a thorough review of the record
and of the parties’ submissions, we affirm, essentially for
the reasons set out by the magistrate judge in his report
and recommendation, dated August 5, 1999. We add only that
even if judgment had not been entered previously by the
state court, appellant received everything she was entitled
to receive under R.I. Gen. Laws § 12-25-6(b) (1993); no
alleged promises by state officials or others can change
that, and her misunderstanding of the terms of the
settlement cannot alter our analysis. Given this, any
alleged error by the district court in ordering certain
subpoenas quashed is harmless at best. Despite appellant’s
reasonable criticisms of the adequacy and speed of the
victim’s compensation system in Rhode Island, this court is
obligated to affirm.
Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27(c).