DIGITAL BIOMETRICS, INC. v. ANTHONY

Docket No. C011227.

13 Cal.App.4th 1145 (1993)

17 Cal. Rptr.2d 43

DIGITAL BIOMETRICS, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLIAM J. ANTHONY, as Director, etc., Defendant and Respondent; JOHN BABICH, as Deputy Director, etc., et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents. J.B. ENTERPRISES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents; IDENTIX INCORPORATED, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

February 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian, Paul F. Dauer and James W. Taylor for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Cathy Chirstian, Dennis T. Fenwick and Manuel M. Medeiros, Deputy Attorneys General, and Catherine Close for Defendants and Respondents and for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents Babich et al.

Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Paul H. Dobson and James R. Parrinello for Real Party in Interest and Respondent Identix Incorporated.


OPINION

SPARKS, Acting P.J.

In the 1983-1984 fiscal year the Legislature appropriated funds to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to commence a multiyear project to automate its manual fingerprint files and to establish an automated statewide system for identifying latent fingerprints. (See Stats. 1985, ch. 1234, § 1, subd. (a), p. 4242.) In 1985 the Legislature acted to codify the DOJ's authority to develop the system and to provide...

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