March 29, 1996 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
No. 95-1993
JOHN M. ATKINS,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
RAYTHEON CORP.,
Defendant, Appellee.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
[Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Torruella, Chief Judge
Stahl and Boudin, Circuit Judges.
John M. Atkins on brief pro se.
David C. Casey, Elena E. Salzman and Peckham, Lobel, Casey,
Prince & Tye on brief for appellee.
Per Curiam. On appeal from an adverse summary
judgment, appellant assigns a single error: that the district
court abused its discretion in denying his motion for
discovery under Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(f). After a careful
review of the record, we see no abuse of the court's
considerable discretion to manage pretrial proceedings. See
Carreiro v. Rhodes Gill & Co., Ltd., 68 F.3d 1443, 1446 (1st
Cir. 1995). Appellant offered no basis to believe that
further discovery would raise a trialworthy issue. Id. at
1449.
Affirmed.
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