
USCA1 Opinion

	




          July 12, 1996         [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 96-1163        No. 96-1164                                ALFRED A. GALLANT, II,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                             MAINE STATE PRISON, ET AL.,                                Defendants, Appellees.                                 ____________________                    APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                              FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE                 [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge]*                                         __________________________                                                                                     ___________________        No. 96-1617                               ALFRED A. GALLANT, JR.,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                                  FRANCIS J. BOYLE,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE                 [Hon. Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., U.S. District Judge]                                                 ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Alfred A. Gallant, II on briefs pro se.            _____________________            Andrew  Ketterer, Attorney  General, and Christopher  C. Leighton,            ________________                         ________________________        Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees Maine State Prison,        et al.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                                    ____________________        *Of the District of Rhode Island, sitting by designation.                 Per Curiam.  In Nos. 96-1163  and 96-1164, the judgments                 __________            are  affirmed substantially  for the  reasons recited  by the                 ________            district court in its January 16, 1996 decision.  See Loc. R.                                                              ___            27.1.  We add only that the amended complaint also falters by            failing  to  draw  a   sufficient  link  between  the  wrongs            allegedly suffered by plaintiff and the actions of  the named            defendants.   The  motions to  proceed in  forma  pauperis on                                                   ___________________            appeal and for appointment of counsel are denied.  The motion                                                      ______            for recusal of Chief Judge Torruella is denied as moot.                                                      ______                 In No.  96-1617, the judgment  is affirmed substantially                                                   ________            for  the reasons recited by the magistrate-judge in his April            15,  1996  report,  which  the  district  court  subsequently            adopted.  See Loc. R. 27.1.                      ___                 So ordered.                 __________                                         -3-
