June 11, 2019
A California federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s retention of Morrison & Foerster LLP as special regulatory counsel to defend against ongoing wildfire investigations and regulatory enforcement actions brought by the California Public Utilities Commission.
May 17, 2019
The nation's largest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, has paid at least $89 million in the past year in legal fees to firms directly involved with its bankruptcy, civil, criminal and regulatory cases stemming from California wildfires — and the vast majority of that sum has gone to Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
May 07, 2019
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Tuesday he'll order Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s board to tour the destruction from a devastating wildfire it's suspected of causing in Butte County, California, as part of its sentence for violating probation, adding that he and attorneys may join them on the tour.
April 17, 2019
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is contesting a California federal judge's proposal to extend its probation because of its failure to report that it was under criminal investigation for allegedly causing wildfires, saying that under federal law, no term of probation can be extended past the five years the utility was already given.
April 02, 2019
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Tuesday barred bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from paying investors dividends unless it complies with new vegetation management requirements, saying the utility paid investors $4.1 billion in dividends that should have gone toward cutting wildfire-sparking trees.
March 27, 2019
A California bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved JP Morgan Chase Bank NA and other banks' revised $5.5 billion debtor-in-possession loan to Pacific Gas and Electric over objections from fire victims who argued PG&E's counsel refused to negotiate with them.
March 25, 2019
Facing the threat of tighter restrictions after a 2010 gas pipeline explosion, PG&E told a California federal judge Friday that the court's demand for perfect compliance with state safety regulations is unrealistic.
January 30, 2019
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ripped into Pacific Gas and Electric Co. at a hearing Wednesday, saying it violated its probation by failing to report that its power lines caused wildfires, and asking whether he could ignore the utility "killing more people [and] starting more fires."
January 24, 2019
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. told a California federal judge Wednesday that it is committed to preventing electricity-ignited wildfires like those that have battered the utility's reputation in recent years, but said the judge's proposed changes to the company's probation conditions aren't "feasible."
January 18, 2019
A California federal judge has tentatively found that Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s equipment's vulnerability to falling tree limbs has been "the single most recurring cause" of the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires to which the company has been linked.