HAWKINS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION


406 Mass. 898 (1990)

551 N.E.2d 495

JAMES A. HAWKINS vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 14, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Hawkins, pro se.

Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, & Ann M. McCarthy, for the Commissioner of Correction & another.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & LYNCH, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

The plaintiff, James A. Hawkins, appeals from the denial by a single justice of this court of his pro se "writ of mandamus in the nature of a civil complaint" by which he sought injunctive and declaratory relief, damages, and costs arising out of the allegedly unlawful disclosure of certain prison records relating to him.

The plaintiff is an inmate, lawfully within the custody of the Department of Correction...

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