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PAINE v. BAKER

No. 78-6213.

595 F.2d 197 (1979)

Frederick Robert PAINE, Appellee, v. Ben L. BAKER, Supervisor of Records, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Peeler Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N. C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N. C., Jacob L. Safron, Special Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

E. Ray Stanford, Third Year Student (R. Michael Wells, Frye, Booth & Porter, Winston-Salem, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before JACK R. MILLER, Judge, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, sitting by designation, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

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 district court properly construed the pro se paper as a complaint under 42 U.S.C...

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