
USCA1 Opinion

	




          September 19, 1994    [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                                 ____________________        No. 94-1149                              PHILIP D. HOPGOOD, ET AL.,                               Plaintiffs, Appellants,                                          v.                       MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER AND SMITH,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                    [Hon. Jaime Pieras, Jr., U.S. District Judge]                                             ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                     Coffin and Campbell, Senior Circuit Judges,                                          _____________________                           Keeton, Senior District Judge.*                                   _____________________                                 ____________________            Harold D.  Vicente with  whom Vicente  & Cuebas  was on brief  for            __________________            _________________        appellants.            Carlos G.  Latimer with whom  Latimer, Biaggi, Rachid,  Rodriguez-            __________________            ____________________________________        Suris & Godreau was on brief for appellees.        _______________                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                                    ____________________        *Of the District of Massachusetts, sitting by designation.                      Per Curiam.  Substantially for the same reasons set                      __________            forth  in the opinion of the United States District Court for            the  District of  Puerto Rico  in Hopgood  v. Merrill  Lynch,                                              _______     _______________            Pierce, Fenner & Smith, 839 F. Supp. 98 (D.Puerto Rico 1993),            ______________________            we affirm.  Costs are awarded to the appellee.                                          -2-
