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          July 18, 1996         [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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        No. 96-1354

                  RICHARD A. COLE, AND RICHARD A. COLE, M.D., INC.,

                               Plaintiffs, Appellants,

                                          v.

             ERNEST J. DISANTIS, JR., FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY, WESTERN, PA.,

                                Defendants, Appellees.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                   [Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,
                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Richard A. Cole, M.D. F.A.C.P. on brief pro se.
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                      Per Curiam.  Having carefully  reviewed the record,
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            appellant's   brief,  and  appellees'   motions  for  summary

            disposition,  we  affirm  the  order  of  dismissal  and  the

            injunction  for the reasons stated by the district court.  We

            add only these comments.

                      Because appellant did not  offer any showing that a

            transfer would  be in  the interest  of justice, we  conclude

            that the  district  court did  not  abuse its  discretion  in

            failing to order one under 28  U.S.C.   1406(a).  See Cote v.
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            Wadel, 796 F.2d  981, 984  (7th Cir. 1986);  Dubin v.  United
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            States, 380 F.2d  813, 816 (5th Cir. 1967)(it is  not "in the
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            interest  of justice" to use   1406(a) to "aid a non-diligent

            plaintiff who knowingly files a case in the wrong district");

            see also Mulcahy v. Guertler, 416 F.Supp. 1083, 1086 (D.Mass.
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            1976).

                      With respect to the injunction, the  district court

            made adequate findings that appellant's many improper filings

            in Massachusetts  were an  abuse of process  causing needless

            expense  and  inconvenience.   The  injunction  concerns only

            filings  against  the  federal  defendants  in  Massachusetts

            district  court, and  it  allows appellant  to  apply to  the

            district court for  leave to  file claims upon  a showing  of

            personal  jurisdiction, proper  venue, and  merit.   In these

            circumstances,  we perceive  no abuse  of discretion  in this

            limitation on  appellant's future filings.   See Pavilonis v.
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            King,  626 F.2d 1075, 1079 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S.
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            829 (1980); cf. Cok v. Family Court of Rhode Island, 985 F.2d
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            32, 34 (1st Cir. 1993). 

                      Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.
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