Frederick Robert Paine v. Ben L. Baker, Supervisor of Records, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 1979-03-30

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K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge: Appellee Frederick Robert Paine, an inmate in the North Carolina Department of Corrections [hereinafter “Department”], filed this action in district court against the Department seeking to inspect his prison file and all interdepartmental memoranda relating to him. Although he styled his action Request for Production of Documents, Fed.R.Civ.P. 34, the di…

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