Case Name: Celeste BOURGEOIS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. State of RHODE ISLAND, et al., Defendants, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-01-10
Citations: 1 F. App'x 5
Docket Number: No. 99-2129
Parties: Celeste BOURGEOIS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. State of RHODE ISLAND, et al., Defendants, Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 1
Pages: 5–6

Head Matter:
Celeste BOURGEOIS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. State of RHODE ISLAND, et al., Defendants, Appellees.
No. 99-2129.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
Jan. 10, 2001.
Celeste Bourgeois, on brief, pro se.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General and J.O. Alston, Special Assistant Attorney General, on brief, for appellees.
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
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) (1998); 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 obligated to affirm.
Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27(c).