USCA1 Opinion

          July 25, 1996

                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]



                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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        No. 96-1184



                                SAMUEL A. WILSON, JR.,



                                Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                          v.



                                 GEORGE VOSE, ET AL.,



                                Defendants, Appellees.



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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND



                    [Hon. Ronald R. Lagueux, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before



                                Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                          Boudin and Lynch, Circuit Judges.
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            Samuel A. Wilson, Jr. on brief pro se.
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            Jeffrey  B. Pine,  Attorney General, and William  M. Kolb, Special
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        Assistant  Attorney  General,  on  brief for  appellees  George  Vose,

        William Chang, Joseph Marocco and Sharon McMann.

            J.  Renn Olenn  and Olenn  & Penza on  brief for  appellee William
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        Chang, M.D.





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                      Per Curiam.  Appellant Samuel  Wilson, Jr., appeals
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            from the district court's  sua sponte dismissal of  his claim



            that  prison officials were  deliberately indifferent  to his



            serious medical  needs in violation of  the Eighth Amendment.



            Finding appellant's  claims of error to be  without merit, we



            affirm substantially for the  reasons given by the magistrate



            judge in his report and recommendation dated October 6, 1995,



            which the district court adopted as its decision.



                      Affirmed.
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