Solimine v. FBI

USCA1 Opinion









March 24, 1995 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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No. 94-1873


ANTHONY SOLIMINE,
Plaintiff, Appellant,

v.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION,
Defendant, Appellee.

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No. 94-1995

ANTHONY SOLIMINE,
Plaintiff, Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS, CIVIL
RIGHTS, DIRECTOR AGENT MORRILL, ET AL.,
Defendants, Appellees.
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APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

[Hon. William G. Young, U.S. District Judge] ___________________

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Before

Torruella, Chief Judge, ___________
Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges. ______________

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Anthony Solimine on brief pro se. ________________
Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, and Gwendolyn R. Tyre, _______________ __________________
Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellees.


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Per Curiam. The district court correctly dismissed, as __________

frivolous, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1915(d), the actions

underlying each of these appeals. The complaints,

essentially identical, were based on "an indisputably

meritless legal theory." Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, _______ ________

327 (1989). Appellant's proffered amendment, submitted after

dismissal in one action and before dismissal in the second

action, did not cure the defective pleading. Appellant

attempts to contort his allegations into a claim of a

negligently-done voluntary undertaking, not within the

discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims

Act, 28 U.S.C. 2680. It is clear, however, that what

appellant alleges is not a voluntary undertaking, but a

failure to undertake what appellant concedes is a duty not _______

within defendants' authority.

The orders of dismissal are affirmed. _________