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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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        No. 96-2268

                                  JEFFREY S. ANOLIK,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                                RICHARD HOWLAND, ESQ.,

                                 Defendant, Appellee.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                    [Hon. Michael A. Ponsor, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                 Selya, Circuit Judge,
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                              Cyr, Senior Circuit Judge,
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                              and Lynch, Circuit Judge.
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            Jeffrey S. Anolik on brief pro se.
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            Charles K. Bergin, Jr. and Robinson  Donovan Madden & Barry,  P.C.
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        on brief for appellee.

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                                     May 29, 1997
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                 Per  Curiam.  We have reviewed the briefs of the parties
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            and  the record on appeal.1   Because, as  the district court
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            concluded, plaintiff cannot reject the settlement and  retain

            the  settlement proceeds  and because  the court  clearly was

            justified in  granting the  motion to enforce  the settlement

            agreement  and dismissing  plaintiff's action  when plaintiff

            failed  to submit  an  affidavit setting  forth his  position

            regarding the  return of  the settlement proceeds,  we affirm

            essentially for the reasons  stated by the district court  in

            its order dated September 17, 1996.2
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                 Affirmed.  Loc. R. 27.1.
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               1Plaintiff failed  to obtain  and provide a  transcript of
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            the hearing on  the motion  to enforce the  settlement.   Any
            adverse  consequences rightly  fall  on the  plaintiff.   See
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            Moore v. Murphy, 47 F.3d 8, 10-11 (1st Cir. 1995).
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               2We are aware that plaintiff filed an affidavit after  the
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            district  court's judgment in this case.  It was clearly out-
            of-time as  it was  not even  mailed before  its due  date of
            September 13.   In any event,  that affidavit was  inadequate
            as,  even  accepting  as  true plaintiff's  contention  of  a
            current  inability to  return the  proceeds, it  expressed no
            intent or willingness to do so at any time.

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