
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        April 10, 1996          [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                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.            ____________________            Scott  Harshbarger,  Attorney   General,  and  Rosemary  S.  Gale,            __________________                             __________________        Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      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.                        _________                                            ____________________               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.                                         -2-
