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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            United States Court of Appeals
                                For the First Circuit
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          No. 97-1484

                            MSM INDUSTRIES, INC., ET AL.,

                               Plaintiffs - Appellants,

                                          v.

                              ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY,

                                Defendant - Appellee.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                      [Hon. Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Judge]
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                    [Hon. Zachary R. Karol, U.S. Magistrate Judge]
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                                        Before

                               Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                            Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge,
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                             and Boudin, Circuit Judge. 
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               Jordan  Lewis Ring,  with whom  Philipp  G. Grefe,  David R.
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          Jackowitz and Ring & Grefe, P.C. were on brief for appellants.
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               Frederick W.  Stein, with  whom Laurence  H. Reece,  Jeffrey
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          Levy, Heidlage & Reece, P.C., Steven D. Pearson and Bates Meckler
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          Bulger & Tilson were on brief for appellee.
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                                  September 18, 1997
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                    Per Curiam.  After a full review of the record, briefs,
                    Per Curiam.
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          and arguments  of counsel, we  are satisfied that the  matter was

          properly  resolved  by the  district  court.    The  doctrine  of

          collateral  estoppel  or   issue  preclusion  made  the   earlier

          Massachusetts  state   court  determination   against  appellants

          binding  in the present  federal court action.   See 28  U.S.C.  
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          1738.  Massachusetts  may follow the Restatement of  Judgments,  
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          28(5)(c) (1982),  in recognizing  a limited  exception where  the

          party opposing collateral  estoppel makes a clear  and convincing

          showing that it was deprived of  the opportunity to obtain a full

          and fair  adjudication in the  earlier case, but no  such showing

          was made by the appellants in this  case.  Accordingly, we do not

          reach appellants'  other  claims of  error which,  as both  sides

          agree, are of no importance  once collateral estoppel is found to

          apply.

                      Affirmed.
                      Affirmed.
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