
USCA1 Opinion

	




                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 96-1958                   DONALD GILL, JOHN CARLEVALE, SR., ROBERT PLANTE,                               Plaintiffs, Appellants,                                          v.                            STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ET AL.,                                Defendants, Appellees.                                 ___________________                                JOSEPH DEVINE, ET AL.,                                Plaintiffs, Appellees.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND                 [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge]                                         __________________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Donald Gill, John  M. Carlevale and Robert  F. Plante on brief pro            ___________  __________________     _________________        se.            Jeffrey  B. Pine,  Attorney General,  Thomas A.  Palombo,  Special            ________________                      __________________        Assistant Attorney General, Katherine  A. Merolla and Pucci, Goldin  &                                    _____________________     ________________        Merolla,  Counsel to Secretary of State, on brief for appellees, State        _______        of Rhode Island, Governor Lincoln Almond, James R. Langevin, Secretary        of State, and The Members of The General Assembly.            Robert E. Craven  and Giannini  Craven Vieira  & Digianfilippo  on            ________________      ________________________________________        brief for appellees, Roger  Begin, Chairman of The Rhode  Island State        Board of Elections.            Robert  D. Fine  and Tillinghast  Licht  &  Semonoff on  brief for            _______________      _______________________________        appellees, John Holmes, Chairman of The  Rhode Island Republican State        Central  Committee, and  Guy  Dufault, Chairman  of  The Rhode  Island        Democratic State Committee.                                 ____________________                                   February 6, 1997                                 ____________________                 Per Curiam.  Plaintiffs,  Donald Gill, John M. Carlevale                 __________            Sr., and  Robert F.  Plante, have appealed  a district  court            judgment declaring  constitutional certain provisions  of the            Rhode Island election  laws.   Gill v. Rhode  Island, 933  F.                                           ____    _____________            Supp.  151  (D.R.I.  1996).     On  appeal,  appellants  have            presented no cogent argument  supported by legal authority to            challenge the court's ruling and we, therefore, have no basis            on which to find any error.                 Affirmed.                 _________                                         -3-
