United States Ninth Circuit

California's maintenance of the California's Child Abuse Central Index (CACI), which is a database of known or suspected child abusers, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because identified individuals are not given a fair opportunity to challenge the allegations against them.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2007
• Decided 11/05/2008
• Published 11/05/2008

Judges

• Before:  JAY S. BYBEE and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Esther G. Boynton (argued), Beverly Hills, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Carolyn A. Kubitschek, Lansner & Kubitschek, New York, NY, for the amicus National Coalition for Child Protection Reform.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark D. Rutter, Carpenter, Rothans & Dumont, Los Angeles, CA;  Martin Stein, Alison Turner, Lillie Hsu (argued), Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of the State of California, David S. Chaney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, James T. Schiavenza, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marsha S. Miller, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Paul C. Epstein (argued), Deputy Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.