Court Opinion

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USCA1 Opinion

	

        April 10, 1996          [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
                                 ____________________

        No. 95-2007

                                JOAN PATRICIA PLANTE,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                            JOSEPH GALLANT, COMMISSIONER,
                         DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, ET AL.,

                                Defendants, Appellees.

                                 ____________________

                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

                       [Hon. Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Judge]
                                           ___________________

                                 ____________________

                                        Before

                                 Selya, Cyr and Lynch,
                                   Circuit Judges.
                                   ______________

                                 ____________________

            Joan Patricia Plante on brief pro se.
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            Scott  Harshbarger,  Attorney   General,  and  Rosemary  S.  Gale,
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        Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees.

                                 ____________________

                                 ____________________

                      Per  Curiam.    We  affirm   the  district  court's
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            judgment  dismissing appellant's action,  essentially for the

            reasons  given  in  the  court's decision  dated  August  22,

            1995.1  See  also Seminole  Tribe of Florida  v. Florida,  64
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            U.S.L.W. 4167 (U.S. Mar. 27, 1996) (holding that Congress may

            not  abrogate  the  states' Eleventh  Amendment  immunity  in

            exercising its power under the Commerce Clause).

                      Affirmed.  
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               1The dismissal of this action, of course, operates without
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            prejudice to the appellant's pursuit of whatever remedies (if
            any) she may have in the Massachusetts courts.

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