Title: Forbes, Aplt v. Dep. of Corrections, et al (Per Curiam Order)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 88 MAP 2007
State: Pennsylvania
Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: May 1, 2008

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT MICHAEL FORBES, Appellant v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE, Appellees : : : : : : : : : : : : : No. 88 MAP 2007 Appeal from the Order of the Commonwealth Court dated 7/19/07 at No. 31 MD 2007 dismissing the petition for review ORDER PER CURIAM: AND NOW, this 30th day of April, 2008, the order of the Commonwealth Court is AFFIRMED.1 1 This Court offers no comment concerning the Commonwealth Court’s determination that all challenges to sentencing aggregation proceed in mandamus as opposed to habeas corpus, see Forbes v. PBPP, 931 A.2d 88, 91 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2007), since such question has not been pursued by either party in the present appeal. This disposition is limited to the availability of the extraordinary remedy of mandamus, implicated by a clear right to relief in the form of the performance of ministerial duties required of the government, and only in the absence of any other adequate and appropriate remedies. See Seeton v. Pa. Game Comm’n, 937 A.2d 1028, 1033 (Pa. 2007).