Plante v. Gallant

Case Date: 04/10/1996
Court: United States Court of Appeals
Docket No: 95-2007










April 10, 1996 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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No. 95-2007

JOAN PATRICIA PLANTE,

Plaintiff, Appellant,

v.

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

Defendants, Appellees.


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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

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

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Before

Selya, Cyr and Lynch,
Circuit Judges. ______________

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


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Per Curiam. We affirm the district court's ___________

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 1 ___ ____ __________________________ _______

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 1
prejudice to the appellant's pursuit of whatever remedies (if
any) she may have in the Massachusetts courts.

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