Kretchmar v. Commonwealth, Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• where inmate sought to compel the Department to provide him with specific medication, his action was in the nature of mandamus
• petitioner could not use mandamus to compel a discretionary act, such as the prescription of a particular medicine
• “Even a cursory review of the [p]etition reveals that [the p]etitioner receive[d] extensive medical attention while in prison.”
• “[I]t is not in the public’s interest for the court to usurp the [Department’s] authority and micro-manage the medical needs of a particular inmate.”
• where inmate sought to compel the Department to provide him with specific medication, his action was in the nature of mandamus
• where an inmate sought to compel the Department to provide him with specific treatment, he was seeking a writ of mandamus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).