July 23, 1993 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

No. 93-1481 RICHARD G. PERREAULT, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. HARRIET FISHMAN, ETC., ET AL., Defendants, Appellees.

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE [Hon. Shane Devine, U.S. District Judge]

Before Breyer, Chief Judge, Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges.

Richard G. Perreault on brief pro se.

Jeffrey R. Howard, Attorney General, and Susan S. Geiger, Senior Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees, The Honorable Harriet Fishman, The Honorable Bruce Mohl, and The Honorable David A. Brock

Per Curiam. We affirm the judgment dismissing

plaintiff's action substantially for the reasons stated by the district court. Having had an opportunity to challenge the child support award in state court, plaintiff may not raise in federal court either the same challenges or new ones which could have been presented to the state court. Migra v.

Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Education, 465 U.S. 75, 81

(1984) ("a federal court must give to a state court judgment the same preclusive effect as would be given that judgment under the law of the State in which the judgment was rendered"); Marine Construction Corp. v. First Southern

Leasing, Ltd., 129 N.H. 270, 274-75, 525 A.2d 709, 712 (1987)

(barring all theories which could have been raised in the earlier litigation; "[t]he central policy 'exemplified by the free permissive joinder of claims, liberal amendment provisions, and compulsory counterclaims, is that the whole controversy between the parties may and often must be brought before the same court in the same action'"); Restatement (Second) of Judgments 22(2)(b).

There is no merit to plaintiff's claim that the New Hampshire Supreme Court denied him due process by summarily rejecting his appeal. Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56,8 77

(1972) (no constitutional right to an appeal).

Plaintiff's request for oral argument is denied, and the judgment is affirmed.

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