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          November 9, 1995      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

                                                     
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        No. 94-2038

                           SIXTO MILLAN COUVERTIER, ET AL.,

                                     Appellants,

                                          v.

                              UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                      Appellee.

                                                     
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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

                    [Hon. Hector M. Laffitte, U.S. District Judge]
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                               Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                            Cyr and Lynch, Circuit Judges.
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             Harry R. Segarra for appellants.
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             Maria Hortensia Rios Gandara,  Assistant United States  Attorney,
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        with  whom Guillermo  Gil, United  States Attorney,  was on  brief for
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        appellee.

                                                     
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                    Per Curiam.  Following  full briefing and oral argument
                    Per Curiam.
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          in this appeal from a district court order dismissing plaintiffs'

          civil action under 19 U.S.C.   1305 for  lack of jurisdiction, we

          summarily affirm  the district court order,  without prejudice to

          any right  appellants may have to  institute mandamus proceedings

          to  require the institution of  a section 1305  proceeding by the

          United  States Attorney,  a collateral  attack on  the forfeiture

          proceeding in  a new  civil action premised  on federal  question

          jurisdiction, under 28  U.S.C.   1331, and  any other administra-

          tive or judicial proceeding for appropriate relief.  The  govern-

          ment's  so-called  "Motion In  Compliance  With  Order Issued  On

          October 6, 1995" is hereby stricken from the record.  The parties

          shall bear their own costs.

                    SO ORDERED.
                    SO ORDERED.
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