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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
                           UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
                                ____________________
       No. 97-1129 
                                  MELVIN A. BROWN,
                                Plaintiff, Appellant,
                                         v.
                       COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL.,
                               Defendants, Appellees.
                                ____________________
                    APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
                    [Hon. Michael A. Ponsor, U.S. District Judge]
                                ____________________
                                       Before
                               Boudin, Stahl and Lynch,
                                   Circuit Judges.
                                ____________________
            Melvin A. Brown on brief pro se.
            Scott  
                  Harshbarger, Attorney General, and    H.  
                                                           Gregory  
                                                                    Williams,
       Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees Commonwealth of
       Massachusetts, Supreme Judicial Court, Appeals Court, Appellate Tax
       Board, Chicopee District Court Small Claims Division, and William Weld,
       a natural person, as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
            William  
                     J.  O'Grady, Associate City Solicitor, Chicopee Law
       Department, on brief for appellee City of Chicopee (City of Chicopee
       Board of Sewer Commissioners, and Board of Water Commissioners).
                                ____________________
                                   August 5, 1997
                                ____________________

                      Per  
                          Curiam. Plaintiff-appellant Melvin A. Brown
            appeals pro  se from the dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. S 1983
            complaint alleging denial of equal protection and deprivation
            of property without due process of law. Having carefully
            reviewed the record and the parties' briefs, we are persuaded
            the decision below should be affirmed essentially for the
            reasons stated in the magistrate's report and recommendation
            dated December 10, 1996. We add simply that appellant has
            waived any substantive due process argument based on his
            failure to raise the issue in the district court.
                      Affirmed.
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