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USCA1 Opinion

	

          August 23, 1995
                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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        No. 95-1244

                                DONALD F. MCCULLOUGH,

                                 Plaintiff, Appellee,

                                          v.

                               ROBERT DESMOND, ET AL.,

                               Defendants, Appellants.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                        FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

               [Hon. Henry A. Mentz, Jr.,* Senior U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Cyr, Boudin and Lynch,
                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Robert M. Desmond on brief pro se.
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            John  Kenneth Felter, P.C.  and Goodwin,  Proctor &  Hoar on brief
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        for appellee.

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        * Of the Eastern District of Louisiana, sitting by designation.

                 Per  Curiam.   Appellant,  Robert  M.  Desmond, filed  a
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            notice  of appeal which bore the district court docket number

            of  McCullough v. Desmond et al., 90-cv-11788.  Any appeal in
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            that  case is  untimely.    Desmond  says, however,  that  he

            intended to appeal  in the district court  case of McCullough
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            v.  Desmond, 94-cv-12216.   In  particular, Desmond  seeks to
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            appeal the judgment,  which entered on December 30, 1994, and

            the denial  of  his motion  to  vacate that  judgment,  which

            entered  on February 1, 1995.  His notice of appeal specified

            those rulings, as well as the party taking the appeal and the

            court  to which the  appeal was taken.   See Fed.  R. App. P.
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            3(c).  As his notice of appeal did not bear the docket number

            of  94-cv-12216, however, it was not entered in that case and

            it is now too late to file a timely notice  of appeal in that

            case.

                 Assuming without  deciding  that the  notice  of  appeal

            erroneously filed in docket number 90-cv-11788 may be treated

            as having  been timely filed in docket number 94-cv-12216, we

            would,  in any event, affirm.   Desmond was  on timely notice

            that  McCullough  had filed  a  motion  for  judgment on  the

            pleadings.  Yet, he  did not notify either McCullough  or the

            district court that he allegedly had not received his copy of

            that motion  and supporting memorandum until  his receipt one

            month  later  of  the  order  granting  McCullough's  motion.

            Further, he  has never  proffered any  grounds to oppose  the

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            entry  of  judgment  on  the  pleadings  that  would  warrant

            vacating that judgment.

                 There was no  abuse of discretion in  denying the motion

            to vacate the judgment and the order of the district court is

            affirmed.
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                 Appellee's  motion for  just  damages  and double  costs

            pursuant to Fed. R.  App. P. 38  is denied.  Ordinary  costs,
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            pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 39, are awarded.

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