USCA1 Opinion

          November 17, 1995

                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]



                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT



                           



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        No. 95-1340 



                               GERALD MASTRACCHIO, SR.,



                                Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                          v.



                              GEORGE VOSE, JR., ET AL.,



                                Defendants, Appellees.





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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND





                       [Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before



                                Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                          Boudin and Stahl, Circuit Judges.
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            Gerald Mastracchio on brief pro se.
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            Michael B.  Grant, Senior Legal  Counsel, Rhode Island  Department
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        of Corrections, on brief for appellees.





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                      Per Curiam.  We  have carefully reviewed the record
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            and  briefs.  Plaintiff was not prejudiced by the magistrate-



            judge's refusal to continue the  hearing and order the return



            of  plaintiff's  legal  papers   because  it  is  clear  that



            plaintiff  had no liberty interest in his prison job.  Sandin
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            v. Conner,  115 S.Ct. 2293  (1995); Bulger  v. United  States
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            Bureau of Prisons, 65 F.3d 48, 50 (5th Cir. 1995).
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                      Affirmed.
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