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      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION--NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
                 United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 97-2201

                          NEIL JOHNSON,

                      Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                v.

                CORNELL CORRECTION, INC., ET AL.,

                      Defendants, Appellees.

           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND

             [Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge]

                              Before

                     Torruella, Chief Judge,
                Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge and
                     Stahl, Circuit Judge.
                                

     Neil Johnson on brief pro se.
     Thomas D. Gidley, Dennis T. Grieco II, and Gidley, Sarli &
Marusak on brief for appellees.

September 8, 1998

                                                      Per Curiam.  We have reviewed the parties' briefs and
    the record on appeal.  There was no abuse of discretion in the
    dismissal of appellant's complaint.  See Marx v. Kelly, Hart &
    Hallman, P.C., 929 F.2d 8, 10 (1st Cir. 1991) (reciting that a
    Rule 37 dismissal is reviewed for abuse of discretion). 
    Indeed, whatever merit might have attended appellant's original
    position, his persistent refusal to recognize clear and
    repeated rulings of the court effectively aborted the
    possibility of orderly proceedings.  We therefore affirm,
    essentially for the reasons stated in the Magistrate Judge's
    Report and Recommendation, dated July 10, 1997, and the
    district court's order, dated September 18, 1997.
              Affirmed.