USCA1 Opinion

       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 99-1101



                     ELSIE L. MORLEY, ET AL.,



                     Plaintiffs, Appellants,



                                v.



           MAINE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL.,



                      Defendants, Appellees.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                    FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE



           [Hon. Morton A. Brody, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                    Selya, Boudin and Lynch,

                        Circuit Judges.

                                

                                

                                

                                

     Elsie L. Morley on brief pro se.

     Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney

General, Andrew S. Hagler, Assistant Attorney General, and

Christopher C. Taub, Assistant Attorney General, on brief for

appellees.











September 23, 1999







                                

                                

            Per Curiam.  After carefully reviewing the documents

  filed on appeal and the record below we affirm substantially

  for the reasons stated by the district court.  

            Affirmed.  Loc. R. 27.1.