Court Opinion

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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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        No. 97-1028
        No. 97-1767

                                GERTRUDE DAVIS GOROD,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                        COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL.,

                                Defendants, Appellees.

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                    APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                   [Hon. Edward F. Harrington, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                           Stahl and Lynch, Circuit Judges.
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            Gertrude Davis Gorod on briefs pro se.
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            Scott Harshbarger,  Attorney General, and Jason Barshak, Assistant
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        Attorney General, on briefs for appellees.

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                                   October 9, 1997
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                 Per  Curiam.  Appellant Gertrude Gorod seeks to overturn
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            a  district  court  order that  dismissed  her  complaint for

            damages  under 42 U.S.C.    1983 for  the failure  to state a

            claim upon  which relief  can be granted.   While  this court

            generally disfavors such dismissals absent advance notice and

            an opportunity to amend, see,  e.g., Wyatt v. City of Boston,
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            35 F.3d 13, 14-15 (1st  Cir. 1994); Street v. Fair,  918 F.2d
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            269, 272 (1st  Cir. 1990)(per curiam), here it  is clear that

            appellant cannot prove  any set of  facts that would  entitle

            her  to  relief.   Accordingly,  the  order  of dismissal  is

            summarily affirmed.   See  Local Rule  27.1.   Appellant also
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            challenges  an  order  denying  her  motion  to  default  the

            defendants.   This  order was  issued after  the judgment  of

            dismissal had  entered and the  case was docketed  on appeal.

            It  is  therefore  a  nullity.       Appeal  no.  97-1767  is

            dismissed.1
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               1We  further  note  that  the  defendants  were  never  in
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            default.  The  case was dismissed before  their answer became
            due. 

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