USCA1 Opinion

          February 7, 1996

                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT











           



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        No. 95-1839



                                 EMIL PRESCOTT DILL,



                                Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                          v.



                          UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON,



                                 Defendant, Appellee.





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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                              FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE



                     [Hon. Morton A. Brody, 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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            Emil Prescott Dill on brief pro se.
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            Vendean V. Vafiades and Nina R. Lavoie on brief for appellee.
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                      Per  Curiam.       The  district  court   dismissed
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            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.
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            Trustees of Boston Univ., 891 F.2d 337, 352 (1st Cir. 1989).
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                      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
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            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
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            States  v. La Guardia, 902  F.2d 1010, 1013  (1st Cir. 1990).
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            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).   
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                      The judgment below is affirmed. 
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               1  Appellant does not seek a stay of this appeal and it is
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            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.
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            1993).       



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