
USCA1 Opinion

	




        December 5, 1995        [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                                          ____________________        No. 95-1645                                   LUTHER C. PERKINS,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                               JESSE BROWN, SECRETARY,                         U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE                   [Hon. Joseph A. DiClerico, U.S. District Judge]                                              ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Selya, Stahl and Lynch,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Luther C. Perkins on brief pro se.            _________________            Paul  M. Gagnon,  United States  Attorney,  and T.  David Plourde,            _______________                                 _________________        Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per  Curiam.    We  have   carefully  reviewed  the                      ___________            parties'  briefs and  the record  on appeal.   We  affirm the            judgment of  the district  court essentially for  the reasons            stated  in the order dated May 25,  1995.  We add that, under            our   system  of   representative  litigation,   clients  are            ordinarily  held responsible  for the  acts and  omissions of            their attorneys.   See Thibeault  v. Square D  Co., 960  F.2d                               ___ _________     _____________            239, 246 (1st Cir. 1992)  ("[W]hile `[t]he argument that  the            sins of the attorney should not be visited upon the client is            a seductive one,  . . .  its siren call  is overborne by  the            nature of  the adversary system.'" (quoting  Damiani v. Rhode                                                         _______    _____            Island Hosp., 704  F.2d 12,  16 (1st Cir.  1983))); see  also            ____________                                        _________            Link v. Wabash R. Co., 370 U.S. 626, 633-34 (1962).  Although            ____    _____________            we are  not unsympathetic  with appellant's plight,  we agree            that he is left to his remedies against counsel.                        Affirmed.                      _________                                         -2-
