Nanayakkara v. Casella

PELLEGRINI, Judge.

Amitha Nanayakkara (Nanayakkara) appeals from the January 4, 1996 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County (trial court), denying his petition for writ of mandamus.

Nanayakkara is a prisoner at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart (Way-mart). On November 19, 1995,1 he submitted a written request to the Waymart Records Officer, Vito Casella (Records Officer), to examine his “inmate records”2 for the purpose of preparing a civil suit in federal court against certain Department officials. In response, the Records Officer denied Na-nayakkara’s request and…