USCA1 Opinion
November 6, 1992 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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No. 92-1713
JUDITH A. ST. LOUIS,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
COMMERCIAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANY,
Defendant, Appellee.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE
[Hon. Eugene W. Beaulieu, U.S. Magistrate Judge]
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Before
Selya, Circuit Judge,
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Higginbotham,* Senior Circuit Judge,
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Cyr, Circuit Judge.
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Marvin H. Glazier and Vafiades, Brountas & Kominsky on brief
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for appellant.
Paul W. Chaiken, Edith A. Richardson, and Rudman & Winchell
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on brief for appellee.
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*Of the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.
Per Curiam. We affirm the judgment below on the basis
Per Curiam.
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of the magistrate judge's rescript, which correctly interprets
the insurance policy. For two reasons, we reject appellant's
newly emergent argument that the policy, so construed, offends
public policy. In the first place, this argument was not raised
below, and it is, therefore, waived. See Clauson v. Smith, 823
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F.2d 660, 666 (1st Cir. 1987) (collecting representative First
Circuit cases). We see no reason to exempt this case from the
operation of the usual rule. In the second place, the applicable
financial responsibility statute, Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 29,
787 (West 1978), is the best and clearest expression of Maine's
public policy on the point and the insurance policy issued by
the defendant, read in the way suggested by the magistrate judge,
is in full compliance with that statute.
Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.
Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.
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