
USCA1 Opinion

	




          February 7, 1996                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                            ____________________        No. 95-1839                                 EMIL PRESCOTT DILL,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                          UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                              FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE                     [Hon. Morton A. Brody, U.S. District Judge]                                            ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                               Torruella, Chief Judge,                                           ___________                          Boudin and Stahl, Circuit Judges.                                            ______________                                 ____________________            Emil Prescott Dill on brief pro se.            __________________            Vendean V. Vafiades and Nina R. Lavoie on brief for appellee.            ___________________     ______________                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per  Curiam.       The  district  court   dismissed                      ___________            plaintiff-appellant's complaint for declaratory  relief under            42  U.S.C.   1983, because plaintiff failed to allege a civil            rights  violation in  the  defendant's refusal  to certify  a            transcript of his college course work after he defaulted on a            student loan.  Plaintiff offers no reasoned support for his              1983 claim in this  court.  Issues raised, but  not supported            in an  appellant's  brief are  deemed  abandoned.   Brown  v.                                                                _____            Trustees of Boston Univ., 891 F.2d 337, 352 (1st Cir. 1989).            ________________________                      Plaintiff now  theorizes that  he is entitled  to a            certified  transcript   by  virtue  of  Chapter   13  of  the            Bankruptcy  Code.  He states that he has filed for bankruptcy            protection  in  a  district  court in  Pennsylvania.1    This                                                                1            claim, and a  vague statutory debt collection  claim which he            also  raises for the first  time on appeal,  are not properly            before  us because they were not presented below.  See United                                                               ___ ______            States  v. La Guardia, 902  F.2d 1010, 1013  (1st Cir. 1990).            ______     __________            The proper  forum for a  debtor seeking relief  in bankruptcy            generally is in  the district  court where  his petition  has            been filed.  See 28 U.S.C.    1334(a)(e).                            ___                      The judgment below is affirmed.                                             ________                                            ____________________               1  Appellant does not seek a stay of this appeal and it is               1            not subject to an automatic stay under 11 U.S.C.   362,            because the action was filed by, rather than against, the            debtor.  See Alpern v. Lieb, 11 F.3d 689, 690 (7th Cir.                     ___ ______    ____            1993).                                                 2
