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Minga, Jay

From: Minga, Jay

Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 9:24 PM

To: 'svora@milbank.com'

Cc: Slack, Richard; Tran, An; Liou, Jessica; 'Peter Benvenutti'; Singh, David

Subject: PG&E - Draft Protective Order

Attachments: Protective Order PGE CLEAN 19-30088 6-3-2019 (002).docx; Redline - PGE Draft 

19-30088 Protective Order. [MILBANK EDITS] and Protective Order PGE CLEAN 

19-30088 6-3-2019 (002).pdf

Samir, 

Thank you very much again for your comments on the draft protective order.  We’ve accepted virtually all your 

suggested changes, with a few limited exceptions that we explain below.  Also, for your convenience we have attached a 

revised clean version along with a redline against the last received from you.  Please note that this new version also 

incorporates edits and comments from the TCC, which accounts for virtually all of the changes not suggested by the 

UCC. 

We did not modify the “Highly Confidential” and “Professional Eyes Only” designations because Debtors have already 

anticipated using both designations on documents. 

                                                        

Regarding Professional Eyes Only Material, we have accepted your suggestion that adverse witnesses be allowed to 

review Professional Eyes Only Material, subject to the witnesses signing an “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 

Bound (Exhibit A).”   

We largely accepted your proposed paragraph 7.6 regarding use of protected material in open court.  We propose, 

however, that the party seeking to offer or use protected material would be best situated to seek relief from court, since 

that party knows of its own need to seek relief in advance of the 72 hours’ notice to the other party.  This allocation 

would also permit keeping the notice period to 72 hours before the intended use without potentially prejudicing the 

Producing Party.   We further propose that it would be appropriate and consistent with precedent that absent relief the 

party seeking to use protected material would not be permitted to make use of it in open court.   

Lastly, we have accepted the extension of time to return Protected Material and agree with portions of your proposed 

language as to the final disposition of Protected Material, including retention of certain work product, etc., and have 

proposed additional language and options consistent with Judge Montali’s past protective orders. 

We hope that these changes work.  We are available for a call if you would like to discuss any of the foregoing. 

Thanks, 

Jay 

Jay Minga 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 

767 Fifth Avenue 

New York, NY 10153 

Jay.Minga@weil.com

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WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 

Stephen Karotkin (pro hac vice) 

(stephen.karotkin@weil.com) 

Ray C. Schrock, P.C. (pro hac vice) 

(ray.schrock@weil.com) 

Jessica Liou (pro hac vice) 

(jessica.liou@weil.com) 

Matthew Goren (pro hac vice) 

(matthew.goren@weil.com) 

767 Fifth Avenue 

New York, NY 10153-0119 

Tel: 212 310 8000 

Fax: 212 310 8007 

Keller & Benvenutti LLP 

Tobias S. Keller (#151445) 

(tkeller@kellerbenvenutti.com) 

Jane Kim (#298192) 

(jkim@kellerbenvenutti.com) 

650 California Street, Suite 1900 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Tel: 415 496 6723 

Fax: 650 636 9251 

Attorneys for Debtors 

and Debtors in Possession

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP 

Paul H. Zumbro (pro hac vice) 

(pzumbro@cravath.com) 

Timothy G. Cameron (pro hac vice pending) 

(tcameron@cravath.com) 

Kevin J. Orsini (pro hac vice) 

(korsini@cravath.com) 

Omid H. Nasab (pro hac vice) 

(onasab@cravath.com) 

825 Eighth Avenue 

New York, NY 10019 

Tel: 212 474 1000 

Fax: 212 474 3700 

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

In re: 

PG&E CORPORATION, 

 - and – 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC 

COMPANY, 

 Debtors. 

Affects PG&E Corporation 

Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

 Affects both Debtors 

* All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case, 

No. 19-30088 (DM). 

Bankruptcy Case No. 19-30088 (DM) 

Chapter 11 

(Lead Case) 

(Jointly Administered) 

[PROPOSED] CONFIDENTIALITY AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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This Confidentiality and Protective Order (“Order”) shall govern the production, review, 

disclosure, and handling of any Discovery Material (as defined herein) by any person or entity (each a 

“Party” and, collectively, the “Parties”) in connection with the above-captioned chapter 11 cases 

pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (the 

“Bankruptcy Court”), Ch. 11 Case Nos. 19-30088 (DM) and 19-30089 (DM) (collectively, the 

“Chapter 11 Cases”). 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

This Order applies to all discovery in the Chapter 11 Cases and related proceedings, including 

informal discovery, discovery under Bankruptcy Rule 2004, and discovery in connection with judicial 

or other proceedings, such as contested matters, adversary proceedings and other disputes (each, a 

“Case,” and collectively, the “Cases”). The Parties have sought or may seek certain Discovery Material 

(as defined below) from one another with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases (collectively, “Discovery 

Requests”) as provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the “Federal Rules”), the Bankruptcy 

Rules, and the Local Rules of Bankruptcy Practice and Procedure of the Bankruptcy Court (the “Local 

Rules”). The purpose of this Order is to facilitate and expedite the production, exchange and treatment 

of Discovery Material (as defined below) and to protect Discovery Material that a Party seeks to maintain 

as confidential. However, the Parties acknowledge that this Order does not entitle them to file 

confidential information under seal without further order of the Court; United States District Court for 

the Norther District of California Civil Local Rule 79-5 (incorporated into the Local Rules by Rule 1001-

2) sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a Party 

seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party that challenges the designation of information or items under 

this Order. 

2.2 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record or House Counsel (as well as 

their support staff). 

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2.3 Designating Party: a Party that designates information or items that it produces in 

response to Discovery Requests as “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, 

“PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.4 Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or manner in 

which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, and 

tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to Discovery Requests or 

provided to industry advisors, financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and their 

respective staff) that are retained by the Debtors’ creditors in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, 

including deposition testimony, interrogatories, answers to interrogatories, requests for admission, 

responses to requests for admission, documents, information and things produced, including information 

provided to the Receiving Party orally, as well as any and all copies, abstracts, digests, notes, summaries, 

and excerpts thereof. 

2.5 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees or contractors of a Party. House Counsel 

does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

2.6 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but are retained to represent 

or advise a Party regarding the Chapter 11 cases. With respect to the Debtors, and any Official 

Committee, Outside Counsel refers to counsel that has been retained by one of the above Parties and 

whose retention has been approved by the Court. 

2.7 Producing Party: a Party that produces Discovery Material. 

2.8 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or 

retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 

2.9 Protected Material: any Discovery Material that is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL”, 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR 

CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.10 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Discovery Material directly from the Producing 

Party. 

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3. SCOPE 

This Order applies to all Discovery Material exchanged in or subject to discovery that is 

produced, formally or informally in response to or in connection with any Discovery Requests in the 

Cases. Discovery Material produced informally by the Debtors in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases 

or pursuant to Rule 2004 (unless otherwise agreed by the Debtors) may only be used in the Chapter 11 

Cases, including in connection with any contested motions in the Chapter 11 Cases, and may not be used 

in connection with any adversary proceeding or other litigation. This Order does not affect, amend or 

modify any existing confidentiality agreements, Committee Bylaws, non-disclosure agreements, 

intercreditor agreements, protective orders or similar agreements applicable to any Producing Party 

and/or Receiving Party, and nothing in this Order shall constitute a waiver of any rights under such 

agreements or orders. Where this Order is in conflict with any existing confidentiality agreements, 

intercreditor agreements, Committee Bylaws, non-disclosure agreements, protective orders or similar 

agreements applicable to any Producing Party and/or Receiving Party in connection with the Cases, the 

provision that provides the most confidentiality protection for Discovery Materials applies. 

The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material, but also (1) any 

information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or 

their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this Order do 

not cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of 

disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving 

Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to 

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. 

4. DURATION 

Even after Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a Court order 

otherwise directs. The Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy shall not relieve the Parties from their 

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responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of Discovery Material pursuant to this Order, and the Court 

shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this Order. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Manner and Timing of Designations. Subject to paragraphs 5.5 and 5.6 and, except as 

otherwise provided in this Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Discovery Material that qualifies 

for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 

Any Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” in 

accordance with the following provisions: 

5.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Material. A Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” if such Producing Party believes in good faith (or with respect to documents 

received from another person, has been reasonably advised by such other person) that: (1) such 

Discovery Material (a) constitutes or contains nonpublic proprietary or confidential technical, business, 

financial, personal or other information of a nature that can be protected under the Bankruptcy Rules or 

the Federal Rules or (b) is subject by law or by contract to a legally protected right of privacy; or (2) the 

Producing Party (a) is under a preexisting obligation to a third-party to treat such Discovery Material as 

confidential or (b) has in good faith been requested by another Party to so designate such Discovery 

Material on the grounds that such other Party considers such Discovery Material to contain information 

that is confidential or proprietary to such Party. 

5.3 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” Material. A 

Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” and/or 

“PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” if such Producing Party believes in good faith (or with respect to 

documents received from another person, has been reasonably advised by such other person) that such 

Discovery Material constitutes or includes “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “PROFESSIONAL 

EYES ONLY” Material that is of such a nature that a risk of competitive injury or a material risk to the 

Debtors’ development of a plan of reorganization or emergence from Bankruptcy would be created if 

such Discovery Material were disclosed to persons other than those identified in Paragraph 7.3 of this 

Order, such as trade secrets, sensitive financial, personal or business information, including insurance 

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policy information, or material prepared by its industry advisors, financial advisors, accounting advisors, 

experts or consultants (and their respective staff) that are retained by any Party in connection with these 

Chapter 11 Cases, and only to the extent that the Producing Party believes in good faith that such material 

is of such a nature that Highly Confidential or Professional Eyes Only treatment is warranted. 

5.4 “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” Material. A Producing Party may designate 

Discovery Material as “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” if disclosure of such Material to a PG&E 

contractor would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive 

means. “PG&E Contractors” means any person or entity retained to provide any goods and/or services 

to PG&E. This designation will also encompass the following: (1) any information copied or extracted 

from Contractor Confidential material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Contractor 

Confidential material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or their Counsel 

that might reveal Contractor Confidential material. 

5.5 Manner Of Designating Discovery Material. Designation in conformity with this Order 

requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix 

the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or 

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, such 

testimony may be designated as appropriate by: (a) Stating so orally on the record and requesting that 

the relevant portion(s) of testimony is so designated; or (b) Providing written notice within seven (7) 

days of the Party’s receipt of the final transcript from the court reporter that the relevant portion(s) of 

such transcript or recording of a deposition thereof is so designated, except in the event that a hearing 

on related issues is scheduled to occur within seven (7) days, in which case the foregoing seven (7) day 

period will be reduced to three (3) business days. Until expiration of the aforesaid designation period, 

as applicable, following receipt of the transcript by the Parties, all deposition transcripts and recordings 

shall be considered and treated as Confidential Material unless otherwise designated by counsel to any 

Party on the record at the deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings. 

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(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or 

containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL.” 

5.6 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. The failure to designate particular Discovery Material 

as “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or 

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” at the time of production shall not operate to waive a Producing 

Party’s right to later designate such Discovery Material as Protected Material or later apply another 

designation pursuant to this Order (“Misdesignated Material”). At such time, arrangement will be made 

for the destruction of the Misdesignated Material or for the return to the Producing Party of all copies of 

the Misdesignated Material and for the substitution, where appropriate, of properly labeled copies of 

such Discovery Material. Upon receipt of replacement copies of such Misdesignated Material with the 

proper designation, the Receiving Party or Parties shall promptly take all commercially reasonable steps 

to return or destroy all previously produced copies of such Misdesignated Material. If requested by the 

Producing Party, a Receiving Party shall verify in writing that it has taken all commercially reasonable 

steps to return or destroy such Misdesignated Material. No Party shall be deemed to have violated this 

Order if, prior to notification of any later designation, such Discovery Material was disclosed or used in 

any manner consistent with its original designation but inconsistent with its later designation. Once such 

later designation has been made, however, any Discovery Material shall be treated in accordance with 

that later designation; provided, however, that if the material that was not designated has been, at the 

time of the later designation, previously publicly filed with a Court, no Party shall be bound by such 

later designation except to the extent determined by the Court upon motion of the Party that did not make 

the designation. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party may challenge a designation of confidentiality at any 

time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to 

avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or 

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delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by 

electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process by 

providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each challenge. 

To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the 

challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the Order. 

Within five (5) business days of the date of service of the notice challenging the designation, the Parties 

shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly. 

In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality 

designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the Protected 

Material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis 

for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process 

only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 

unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, 

the Challenging Party may seek a ruling from the Bankruptcy Court that such information should not be 

treated as Confidential, Professional Eyes Only or Highly Confidential Material. The motion shall be 

set at the first available date on regular notice. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and 

confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. The Challenging Party may file a motion 

challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a 

challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. 

All Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is 

entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the challenge. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF DISCOVERY MATERIAL 

7.1 Use of Discovery Material. A Receiving Party may use Discovery Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party solely for the purposes of these Chapter 11 Cases and not for any 

other purpose, including any other litigation or judicial proceedings, or any business, competitive, 

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governmental, commercial, or administrative purpose or function. In the case of use by Official 

Committees or Committee Professionals, Protected Material may be used only in a manner consistent 

with the Committee’s duties and responsibilities. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the 

categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Debtors emerge from 

Bankruptcy, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 14 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a 

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by 

the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

(a) the officers, directors, employees, and Counsel of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11 Cases or a Case; 

(b) where the Receiving Party is an Official Committee, its members, Outside 

Counsel and its advisors that are retained by the Official Committee or its Outside Counsel and where 

necessary approved by the Court, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the Chapter 

11 Cases or a Case; 

(c) the Debtors; 

(d) any Official Committee, including its members, and the Official Committee’s 

Outside Counsel to whom the Producing Party has given consent; 

(e) the U.S. Trustee; 

(f) any other persons specified in Paragraph 7.3 below. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating 

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” 

or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” only to: 

(a) Outside Counsel of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11 Cases or a Case; 

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(b) financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and their 

respective staff) that are retained by the Receiving Party (and in the case of the Debtors or any Official 

Committee, approved by the Court) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and their 

respective staff) that are retained by any Party (and in the case of the Debtors or any Official Committee, 

approved by the Court) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, to whom the Producing Party may 

consent in writing and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A). 

(d) Outside Counsel for the U.S. Trustee; 

(e) the Bankruptcy Court or any Court to which an appeal of a Case is taken, and their 

personnel; 

(f) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11 

Cases or a Case and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(g) for purposes of witness preparation, any deponent or witness who was noticed for 

a deposition, or is on a witness list for hearing or trial, in preparation for his or her noticed deposition, 

hearing, or trial testimony where such Protected Material is determined by counsel in good faith to be 

necessary to the anticipated subject matter of testimony, and that doing so would not cause competitive 

harm, provided, however, that such persons (1) sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A), (2) are only provided such Protected Material in connection with preparation for the 

anticipated testimony, and (3) shall not be permitted to retain copies of such Protected Material. 

(h) Deponents and witnesses where counsel has a good faith basis for believing that 

the witness would have had knowledge of the contents of the Protected Material in the course of fulfilling 

his or her responsibilities or has information that directly bears upon the Protected Material. 

(i) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

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(j) any adverse witness during the course of a deposition where counsel questioning 

the witness reasonably and in good faith believes that questioning the witness regarding the document is 

necessary and that doing so would not cause competitive harm and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

(k) any other person or entity with respect to whom the Producing Party may consent 

in writing and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

7.4 Disclosure of “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may 

disclose any information or item designated “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” only to those parties 

listed in sections 7.2 – 7.3, but may not disclose such information to PG&E contractors or their advisors. 

7.5 Filing or Submitting Protected Material To Court. Without written permission from the 

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may 

not file in the public record related to a Case or the Chapter 11 Cases any Protected Material. A Party 

that seeks to file any Protected Material with the Court must file under seal in accordance with the 

Federal Rules, the Bankruptcy Rules, the Local Rules, and the individual practice rules of the Judge. 

Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 

specific Protected Material at issue. 

7.6 Use of Protected Material in Open Court. The limitations on disclosure in this Order shall 

not apply to any Discovery Materials offered or otherwise used by any Party at trial or any hearing held 

in open court except as provided in this paragraph. As part of any pretrial conference or any meet and 

confer regarding the use of exhibits in any evidentiary hearing, and at least 72 hours prior to the use of 

any Protected Material at trial or any hearing to be held in open court, counsel for any Party who desires 

to offer or use such Protected Material at trial or any hearing to be held in open court shall meet and 

confer in good faith with the Producing Party together with any other Parties who have expressed interest 

in participating in such meet and confer to discuss ways to redact the Protected Material so that the 

material may be offered or otherwise used by any party, in accordance with the provisions of the 

Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rules. If the Parties are unable to resolve a dispute related to such 

Protected Material, then the Party who desires to offer or use such Protected Material at trial or any 

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hearing to be held in open court bears the burden of requesting relief from the Court and, in the absence 

of such relief, such Protected Material shall not be offered or otherwise used at trial or any hearing held 

in open court. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

PROCEEDINGS 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other proceedings that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in a Case or these Chapter 11 Cases as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY”, or 

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include 

a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in 

the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this 

Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena or 

court order shall not produce any Protected Material before a determination by the Court from which the 

subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that Court of its confidential 

material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving 

Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another Court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected Material 

to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Order, the Receiving Party must 

immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best 

efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to 

whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or 

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persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit 

A. Disclosure of Protected Material other than in accordance with the terms of this Order may subject 

the disclosing person to such sanctions and remedies as the Court may deem appropriate. 

10. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED DISCOVERY MATERIAL 

This Order is entered pursuant to Rule 502(d) of the Federal Rules of Evidence. If a Producing 

Party produces materials that the Producing Party later discovers to be privileged or subject to other 

protection, such as work-product protection, the production of that material shall not be deemed to 

constitute the waiver of any applicable privileges or protections. In such circumstances, shortly after 

the Producing Party becomes aware that privileged material was produced, it must notify the Receiving 

Party and request, at the Producing Party’s election, either the return or the destruction of the produced 

material. Immediately after receiving such notification, the Receiving Party shall, as instructed, return 

or destroy and confirm destruction of all such produced material, including all copies, notes, and/or 

summaries thereof in any Receiving Party work product. The Receiving Party shall not use the contents 

of such material for any purpose, including in connection with any effort seeking to compel production 

of the produced material. The Receiving Party must take reasonable steps to retrieve the produced 

material if the Receiving Party disclosed it before being notified. Such return or destruction and 

confirmation of destruction shall not preclude the Receiving Party from seeking to compel production 

of the produced material for reasons other than its production or any information about the contents of 

the material that was gained due to its production. Moreover, this Order shall not prevent any Party from 

challenging the designation of such material as privileged or protected and moving to compel production 

of allegedly privileged or protected documents. If the Receiving Party becomes aware during the review 

of any material that is likely to be privileged or subject to other protection, the Receiving Party shall 

immediately notify the Producing Party and sequester the material until the Producing Party has had a 

reasonable opportunity to respond. 

11. DEPOSITIONS 

11.1 Presence Of Persons During Deposition Testimony. Anyone who attends a deposition is 

subject to the provisions of this Order with respect to such deposition. When Protected Material is 

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elicited during a deposition, persons not entitled to receive such information under the terms of this Order 

shall, upon request, be excluded from the portion of the deposition so designated. 

11.2 Responsibilities And Obligations Of Court Reporters. In the event that testimony is 

designated as Confidential, Highly Confidential or Professional Eyes Only Material, the court reporter, 

who shall first have agreed to abide by the terms of this paragraph, shall be instructed to include on the 

cover page of each such transcript the legend, “This transcript portion contains information subject to a 

Protective Order and shall be used only in accordance therewith,” and each page of the transcript shall 

include the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES 

ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” as appropriate. If the deposition is recorded, the 

recording shall also be subject to the same level of confidentiality as the transcript and include the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY,” or 

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” as appropriate, if any portion of the transcript itself is so 

designated. 

12. PRODUCTION OF CUSTOMER SMART METER DATA 

12.1 Pursuant to California Public Utilities Commission Decision No. 11-07-056 and related 

decisions, utility customer smart meter usage data may only be disclosed after providing affected 

customers with seven days notice and an opportunity to object to such disclosure as required by the 

Decision. Pursuant to Debtor Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s tariff Electric and Gas Rules 9.M and 

27, confidential customer information is subject to similar prior notice requirements as applicable to such 

customer information. To the extent Debtors produce customer smart meter usage data subject to these 

rules and tariffs, Debtors shall provide affected customers with appropriate notice prior to production 

and appropriate notification to the affected customers as required by the rules and tariffs. Producing 

Party and Receiving Party shall comply with all federal and state privacy laws as applicable to customer 

data under this Order. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its 

modification by the Court in the future, including as this Order applies to any particular contested matter 

or adversary proceeding. 

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13.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. Nothing in this Order waives any right by a Party that 

it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not 

addressed in this Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence 

of any of the material covered by this Order. 

13.3 Continuing Applicability Of Order. The provisions of this Order shall survive the 

Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy for any retained Discovery Material. The Debtors’ emergence 

from Bankruptcy shall not relieve the Parties from their responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of 

Discovery Material pursuant to this Order, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of 

this Order. 

13.4 Amendment Of Order. This Order is subject to modification by this Court upon good 

cause shown by any Party. Nothing herein shall preclude a Party from applying at any time (including, 

without limitation, after the conclusion of these Chapter 11 proceedings) to the Court for relief from 

(including, without limitation termination of) any or all of the provisions of this Order. The Debtors and 

the Party seeking to modify or terminate the Order shall meet and confer in good faith to reach an 

agreement on any issues in dispute concerning the meaning, application, or interpretation of this Order 

prior to any application to the Court for resolution of such dispute. A Producing Party and a Receiving 

Party may agree to modify this Order as it applies to a particular production or a particular proceeding 

in the Cases with (7) business days prior notice to the Debtors. 

13.5 Use Of Discovery Material By Producing Party. Nothing in this Order affects the right 

of any Producing Party to use or disclose its own Discovery Material in any way. Such disclosure will 

not waive the protections of this Order and will not otherwise entitle other Parties or their attorneys to 

use or disclose such Discovery Material in violation of this Order. 

13.6 Obligations Of Parties. Nothing herein shall relieve a Party of its obligations under the 

Federal Rules, Bankruptcy Rules, Local Rules, or under any future stipulations and orders, regarding the 

production of documents or the making of timely responses to Discovery Requests in connection with 

any Dispute or the Chapter 11 Cases. 

13.7 Advice Of Counsel. Nothing herein shall prevent or otherwise restrict counsel from 

rendering advise to their clients in connection with these Chapter 11 proceedings and, in the course 

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thereof, relying on examination of Protected Material; provided, however, that in rendering such advice 

and otherwise communicating with such client, counsel shall not make specific disclosure of any 

information in any manner that is inconsistent with the restrictions or procedures set forth herein. 

13.8 Enforcement. The provisions of this Order constitute an Order of this Court and 

violations of the provisions of this Order are subject to enforcement and the imposition of legal sanctions 

in the same manner as any other Order of the Court. 

14. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 90 days after the conclusion of the Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy, unless 

otherwise ordered by the Court, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing 

Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a 

written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating 

Party) by the 90 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected 

Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any 

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Outside Counsel are entitled to retain an archival 

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and 

expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. A Receiving Party’s obligations 

under this paragraph shall not require the destruction or return of Confidential, Highly Confidential or 

Professional Eyes Only Material by Outside Counsel that is stored on backup storage or in archiving 

solutions made in accordance with regular data backup procedures for disaster recovery or litigation 

hold, provided that Outside Counsel maintains the confidentiality thereof in accordance with this Order. 

If a Receiving Party chooses to take all commercially reasonable steps to destroy, rather than return, 

documents in accordance with this paragraph, that Receiving Party shall, if requested by the Producing 

Party, verify such destruction in writing to counsel for the Producing Party. Notwithstanding anything 

in this paragraph, to the extent that the information in the Discovery Material remains confidential, the 

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terms of this Order shall remain binding. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ________________________ _________________________________________ 

 Judge Dennis Montali 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print 

or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the 

Confidentiality and Protective Order that was issued by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the 

Northern District of California on [date] in In re PG&E Corp., et al., CASE NO. 3:19-bk-30088 (the 

“Order”). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of the Order and I understand and 

acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of 

contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is 

subject to the Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of the Order. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern 

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Confidentiality and Protective Order, 

even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as 

my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to 

enforcement of the Order. 

Date: ______________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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WEIL:\96958026\12\67615.0013

CONFIDENTIAL WEIL/CRAVATH

DRAFT 5/17/20196/3/2019

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

In re:

PG&E CORPORATION,

- and –

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC

COMPANY,

Debtors.

Affects PG&E Corporation

Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company

 Affects both Debtors

* All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case,

No. 19-30088 (DM).

Bankruptcy Case No. 19-30088 (DM)

Chapter 11

(Lead Case)

(Jointly Administered)

[PROPOSED] CONFIDENTIALITY AND

PROTECTIVE ORDER

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP

Stephen Karotkin (pro hac vice)

(stephen.karotkin@weil.com)

Ray C. Schrock, P.C. (pro hac vice)

(ray.schrock@weil.com)

Jessica Liou (pro hac vice)

(jessica.liou@weil.com)

Matthew Goren (pro hac vice)

(matthew.goren@weil.com)

767 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10153-0119

Tel: 212 310 8000

Fax: 212 310 8007

Keller & Benvenutti LLP

Tobias S. Keller (#151445)

(tkeller@kellerbenvenutti.com)

Jane Kim (#298192)

(jkim@kellerbenvenutti.com)

650 California Street, Suite 1900

San Francisco, CA 94108

Tel: 415 496 6723

Fax: 650 636 9251

Attorneys for Debtors

and Debtors in Possession

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP

Paul H. Zumbro (pro hac vice)

(pzumbro@cravath.com)

Timothy G. Cameron (pro hac vice pending)

(tcameron@cravath.com)

Kevin J. Orsini (pro hac vice)

(korsini@cravath.com)

Omid H. Nasab (pro hac vice)

(onasab@cravath.com)

825 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10019

Tel: 212 474 1000

Fax: 212 474 3700

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This Confidentiality and Protective Order (“Order”) shall govern the production, review,

disclosure, and handling of any Discovery Material (as defined herein) by any person or entity (each a

“Party” and, collectively, the “Parties”) in connection with the above-captioned chapter 11 cases

pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (the

“Bankruptcy Court”), Ch. 11 Case Nos. 19-30088 (DM) and 19-30089 (DM) (collectively, the

“Chapter 11 Cases”).

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

This Order applies to all discovery in the Chapter 11 Cases and related proceedings, including

informal discovery, discovery under Bankruptcy Rule 2004, and discovery in connection with judicial

or other proceedings, such as contested matters, adversary proceedings and other disputes (each, a

“Case,” and collectively, the “Cases”). The Parties have sought or may seek certain Discovery

Material (as defined below) from one another with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases (collectively,

“Discovery Requests”) as provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the “Federal Rules”),

the Bankruptcy Rules, and the Local Rules of Bankruptcy Practice and Procedure of the Bankruptcy

Court (the “Local Rules”). The purpose of this Order is to facilitate and expedite the production,

exchange and treatment of Discovery Material (as defined below) and to protect Discovery Material

that a Party seeks to maintain as confidential. However, the Parties acknowledge that this Order does

not entitle them to file confidential information under seal without further order of the Court; United

States District Court for the Norther District of California Civil Local Rule 79-5 (incorporated into the

Local Rules by Rule 1001-2) sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will

be applied when a Party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party that challenges the designation of information or items under

this Order.

2.2 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record or House Counsel (as well as

their support staff).

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2.3 Designating Party: a Party that designates information or items that it produces in

response to Discovery Requests as “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”,

“PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.4 Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or manner in

which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, and

tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to Discovery Requests or

provided to industry advisors, financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and

their respective staff) that are retained by the Debtors’ creditors in connection with the Chapter 11

Cases, including deposition testimony, interrogatories, answers to interrogatories, requests for

admission, responses to requests for admission, documents, information and things produced, including

information provided to the Receiving Party orally, as well as any and all copies, abstracts, digests,

notes, summaries, and excerpts thereof.

2.5 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees or contractors of a Party. House

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

2.6 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but are retained to

represent or advise a Party regarding the Chapter 11 cases. With respect to the Debtors, and any

Official Committee, Outside Counsel refers to counsel that has been retained by one of the above

Parties and whose retention has been approved by the Court.

2.7 Producing Party: a Party that produces Discovery Material.

2.8 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g.,

photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing,

or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

2.9 Protected Material: any Discovery Material that is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL”,

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR

CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.10 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Discovery Material directly from the Producing

Party.

There does not appear to be a distinction between

these designations. Consider merging into one of

the other.

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3. SCOPE

This Order applies to all Discovery Material exchanged in or subject to discovery that is

produced, formally or informally in response to or in connection with any Discovery Requests in the

Cases. Discovery Material produced informally by the Debtors in connection with the Chapter 11

Cases or pursuant to Rule 2004 (unless otherwise agreed by the Debtors) may only be used in the

Chapter 11 Cases, including in connection with any contested motions in the Chapter 11 Cases, and

may not be used in connection with any adversary proceeding or other litigation. This Order does not

affect, amend or modify any existing confidentiality agreements, Committee Bylaws, non-disclosure

agreements, intercreditor agreements, protective orders or similar agreements applicable to any

Producing Party and/or Receiving Party, and nothing in this Order shall constitute a waiver of any

rights under such agreements or orders. Where this Order is in conflict with any existing confidentiality

agreements, intercreditor agreements, Committee Bylaws, non-disclosure agreements, protective

orders or similar agreements applicable to any Producing Party and/or Receiving Party in connection

with the Cases, the provision that provides the most confidentiality protection for Discovery Materials

applies.

The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material, but also (1) any

information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or

their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this Order

do not cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of

disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving

Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party.

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4. DURATION

Even after Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a Court order

otherwise directs. The Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy shall not relieve the Parties from their

responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of Discovery Material pursuant to this Order, and the

Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this Order.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Manner and Timing of Designations. Subject to paragraphs 5.5 and 5.6 and, except as

otherwise provided in this Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Discovery Material that

qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed

or produced. Any Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as “CONFIDENTIAL”,

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR

CONFIDENTIAL” in accordance with the following provisions:

5.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Material. A Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as

“CONFIDENTIAL” if such Producing Party believes in good faith (or with respect to documents

received from another person, has been reasonably advised by such other person) that: (1) such

Discovery Material (a) constitutes or contains nonpublic proprietary or confidential technical, business,

financial, personal or other information of a nature that can be protected under the Bankruptcy Rules

or the Federal Rules or (b) is subject by law or by contract to a legally protected right of privacy; or (2)

the Producing Party (a) is under a preexisting obligation to a third-party to treat such Discovery

Material as confidential or (b) has in good faith been requested by another Party or non-Party to so

designate such Discovery Material on the grounds that such other Party or non-Party considers such

Discovery Material to contain information that is confidential or proprietary to such Party or nonParty.

5.3 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” Material. A

Producing Party may designate Discovery Material as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” and/or

“PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” if such Producing Party believes in good faith (or with respect to

documents received from another person, has been reasonably advised by such other person) that such

Discovery Material constitutes or includes “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “PROFESSIONAL

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EYES ONLY” Material that is of such a nature that a risk of competitive injury or a material risk to the

Debtors’ development of a plan of reorganization or emergence from Bankruptcy would be created if

such Discovery Material were disclosed to persons other than those identified in Paragraph 7.3 of this

Order, such as trade secrets, sensitive financial, personal or business information, including insurance

policy information, or material prepared by its industry advisors, financial advisors, accounting

advisors, experts or consultants (and their respective staff) that are retained by any Party in connection

with these Chapter 11 Cases, and only to the extent that the Producing Party believes in good faith that

such material is of such a nature that Highly Confidential or Professional Eyes Only treatment is

warranted.

5.4 “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” Material. A Producing Party may designate

Discovery Material as “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” if disclosure of such Material to a PG&E

contractor would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive

means. “PG&E Contractors” means any non-partyperson or entity retained to provide any goods

and/or services to PG&E. This designation will also encompass the following: (1) any information

copied or extracted from Contractor Confidential material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or

compilations of Contractor Confidential material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or

presentations by parties or their Counsel that might reveal Contractor Confidential material.

5.5 Manner Of Designating Discovery Material. Designation in conformity with this Order

requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES

ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material.

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, such

testimony may be designated as appropriate by: (a) Stating so orally on the record and requesting that

the relevant portion(s) of testimony is so designated; or (b) Providing written notice within seven (7)

days of the Party’s receipt of the final transcript from the court reporter that the relevant portion(s) of

such transcript or recording of a deposition thereof is so designated, except in the event that a hearing

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on related issues is scheduled to occur within seven (7) days, in which case the foregoing seven (7) day

period will be reduced to three (3) business days. Until expiration of the aforesaid designation period,

as applicable, following receipt of the transcript by the Parties, all deposition transcripts and recordings

shall be considered and treated as Confidential Material unless otherwise designated by counsel to any

Party on the record at the deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any

other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container

or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL.”

5.6 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. The failure to designate particular Discovery Material

as “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” or

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” at the time of production shall not operate to waive a Producing

Party’s right to later designate such Discovery Material as Protected Material or later apply another

designation pursuant to this Order (“Misdesignated Material”). At such time, arrangement will be

made for the destruction of the Misdesignated Material or for the return to the Producing Party of all

copies of the Misdesignated Material and for the substitution, where appropriate, of properly labeled

copies of such Discovery Material. Upon receipt of replacement copies of such Misdesignated

Material with the proper designation, the Receiving Party or Parties shall promptly take all

commercially reasonable steps to return or destroy all previously produced copies of such

Misdesignated Material. If requested by the Producing Party, a Receiving Party shall verify in writing

that it has taken all commercially reasonable steps to return or destroy such Misdesignated Material.

No Party shall be deemed to have violated this Order if, prior to notification of any later designation,

such Discovery Material was disclosed or used in any manner consistent with its original designation

but inconsistent with its later designation. Once such later designation has been made, however, any

Discovery Material shall be treated in accordance with that later designation; provided, however, that if

the material that was not designated has been, at the time of the later designation, previously publicly

filed with a Court, no Party shall be bound by such later designation except to the extent determined by

the Court upon motion of the Party that did not make the designation.

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party may challenge a designation of confidentiality at any

time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to

avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or

delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by

electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 6.1 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process

by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each

challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite

that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the

Order. The Within five (5) business days of the date of service of the notice challenging the

designation, the Parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process

by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient)

within 5 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the

basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating

Party an opportunity to review the Protected Material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no

change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party

may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer

process first or establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer

process in a timely manner.

6.3 6.2 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court

intervention, the Challenging Party may seek a ruling from the Bankruptcy Court that such information

should not be treated as Confidential, Professional Eyes Only or Highly Confidential Material. No

Confidential, Professional Eyes Only or Highly Confidential Material shall be filed in the public record

prior to such a determination by the Bankruptcy CourtThe motion shall be set at the first available date

on regular notice. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements

imposed by the preceding paragraph. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall

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be on the Challenging Party. Frivolous may file a motion challengesing , and those made for an

improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other Parties) may

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions.a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good

cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions

thereof.

All Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is

entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the challenge.

6.3 Timing of Challenge to Confidentiality Designations. A Receiving Party shall not be obliged

to challenge the propriety of a confidentiality designation at the time made, and a failure to do so shall

not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto. The failure of any Party to challenge the designation by a

Producing Party of Discovery Materials as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential/Professional Eyes

Only” during the discovery period shall not be a waiver of that Party’s right to object to the designation

at trial.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF DISCOVERY MATERIAL

7.1 Use of Discovery Material. A Receiving Party may use Discovery Material that is

disclosed or produced by another Party solely for the purposes of these Chapter 11 Cases and not for

any other purpose, including any other litigation or judicial proceedings, or any business, competitive,

governmental, commercial, or administrative purpose or function. In the case of use by Official

Committees or Committee Professionals, Protected Material may be used only in a manner consistent

with the Committee’s duties and responsibilities. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the

categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Debtors emerge from

Bankruptcy, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 14 below (FINAL

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by

the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

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(a) the officers, directors, employees, and Counsel of the Receiving Party to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11 Cases or a Case;

(b) where the Receiving Party is an Official Committee, its members, Outside

Counsel and its advisors that are retained by the Official Committee or its Outside Counsel and where

necessary approved by the Court, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the

Chapter 11 Cases or a Case;

(c) the Debtors;

(d) any Official Committee, including its members, and the Official Committee’s

Outside Counsel to whom the Producing Party has given consent;

(e) the U.S. Trustee;

(f) any other persons specified in Paragraph 7.3 below.

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL” or “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY” only to:

(a) Outside Counsel of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11 Cases or a Case;

(b) financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and their

respective staff) that are retained by the Receiving Party (and in the case of the Debtors or any Official

Committee, approved by the Court) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases who have signed the

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) financial advisors, accounting advisors, experts and consultants (and their

respective staff) that are retained by any Party (and in the case of the Debtors or any Official

Committee, approved by the Court) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, to whom the Producing

Party may consent in writing and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” (Exhibit A).

(d) Outside Counsel for the U.S. Trustee;

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(e) the Bankruptcy Court or any Court to which an appeal of a Case is taken, and

their personnel;

(f) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors,

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for purposes of the Chapter 11

Cases or a Case and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(g) for purposes of witness preparation, any deponent or witness who was noticed

for a deposition, or is on a witness list for hearing or trial, in preparation for his or her noticed

deposition, hearing, or trial testimony where such Protected Material is determined by counsel in good

faith to be necessary to the anticipated subject matter of testimony, and that doing so would not cause

competitive harm, provided, however, that such persons (1) sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), (2) are only provided such Protected Material in connection with

preparation for the anticipated testimony, and (3) shall not be permitted to retain copies of such

Protected Material.

(h) Deponents and witnesses where counsel has a good faith basis for believing that

the witness would have had knowledge of the contents of the Protected Material in the course of

fulfilling his or her responsibilities or has information that directly bears upon the Protected Material.

(i) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian

or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

(j) any adverse witness during the course of a deposition where counsel questioning

the witness reasonably and in good faith believes that questioning the witness regarding the document

is necessary and that doing so would not cause competitive harm. and who have signed the

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

(k) any other person or entity with respect to whom the Producing Party may

consent in writing and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit

A).

7.4 Disclosure of “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless

otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party

may disclose any information or item designated “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” only to those

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parties listed in sections 7.2 – 7.3, but may not disclose such information to PG&E contractors or their

advisors.

7.5 Filing or Submitting Protected Material To Court. Without written permission from the

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party

may not file in the public record related to a Case or the Chapter 11 Cases any Protected Material. A

Party that seeks to file any Protected Material with the Court must file under seal in accordance with

the Federal Rules, the Bankruptcy Rules, the Local Rules, and the individual practice rules of the

Judge. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the

sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue.

7.6 Use of Protected Material in Open Court. The limitations on disclosure in this Order

shall not apply to any Discovery Materials offered or otherwise used by any Party at trial or any

hearing held in open court except as provided in this paragraph. As part of any pretrial conference or

any meet and confer regarding the use of exhibits in any evidentiary hearing, and at least 72 hours prior

to the use of any Protected Material at trial or any hearing to be held in open court, counsel for any

Party who desires to offer or use such Protected Material at trial or any hearing to be held in open

court shall meet and confer in good faith with the Producing Party together with any other Parties who

have expressed interest in participating in such meet and confer to discuss ways to redact the Protected

Material so that the material may be offered or otherwise used by any party, in accordance with the

provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rules. If the Parties are unable to resolve a

dispute related to such Protected Material, then the Producing PersonParty who desires to offer or use

such Protected Material at trial or any hearing to be held in open court bears the burden of requesting

relief from the Court and, in the absence of such relief, there shall be no limitations on the ability of the

Parties to offer or otherwise use such Protected Material shall not be offered or otherwise used at trial

or any hearing held in open court.

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

PROCEEDINGS

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other proceedings that compels

disclosure of any information or items designated in a Case or these Chapter 11 Cases as

“CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY”, or

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” that Party must:

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include

a copy of the subpoena or court order;

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue

in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this

Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Order; and

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena or

court order shall not produce any Protected Material before a determination by the Court from which

the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The

Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that Court of its

confidential material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or

encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another Court.

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9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Order, the Receiving Party

must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its

best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request

such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A. Disclosure of Protected Material other than in accordance with the terms of this

Order may subject the disclosing person to such sanctions and remedies as the Court may deem

appropriate.

10. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED DISCOVERY MATERIAL

This Order is entered pursuant to Rule 502(d) of the Federal Rules of Evidence. If a Producing

Party produces materials that the Producing Party later discovers to be privileged or subject to other

protection, such as work-product protection, the production of that material shall not be deemed to

constitute the waiver of any applicable privileges or protections. In such circumstances, shortly after

the Producing Party becomes aware that privileged material was produced, it must notify the Receiving

Party and request, at the Producing Party’s election, either the return or the destruction of the

produced material. Immediately after receiving such notification, the Receiving Party shall, as

instructed, return or destroy and confirm destruction of all such produced material, including all copies,

notes, and/or summaries thereof in any Receiving Party work product. The Receiving Party shall not

use the contents of such material for any purpose, including in connection with any effort seeking to

compel production of the produced material. The Receiving Party must take reasonable steps to

retrieve the produced material if the Receiving Party disclosed it before being notified. Such return or

destruction and confirmation of destruction shall not preclude the Receiving Party from seeking to

compel production of the produced material for reasons other than its production or any information

about the contents of the material that was gained due to its production. Moreover, this Order shall

not prevent any Party from challenging the designation of such material as privileged or protected and

moving to compel production of allegedly privileged or protected documents. If the Receiving Party

becomes aware during the review of any material that is likely to be privileged or subject to other

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protection, the Receiving Party shall immediately notify the Producing Party and sequester the material

until the Producing Party has had a reasonable opportunity to respond.

11. DEPOSITIONS

11.1 Presence Of Persons During Deposition Testimony. Anyone who attends a deposition

is subject to the provisions of this Order with respect to such deposition. When Protected Material is

elicited during a deposition, persons not entitled to receive such information under the terms of this

Order shall, upon request, be excluded from the portion of the deposition so designated.

11.2 Responsibilities And Obligations Of Court Reporters. In the event that testimony is

designated as Confidential, Highly Confidential or Professional Eyes Only Material, the court reporter,

who shall first have agreed to abide by the terms of this paragraph, shall be instructed to include on the

cover page of each such transcript the legend, “This transcript portion contains information subject to a

Protective Order and shall be used only in accordance therewith,” and each page of the transcript shall

include the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES

ONLY” or “CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” as appropriate. If the deposition is recorded, the

recording shall also be subject to the same level of confidentiality as the transcript and include the

legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL”, “PROFESSIONAL EYES ONLY,” or

“CONTRACTOR CONFIDENTIAL” as appropriate, if any portion of the transcript itself is so

designated.

12. PRODUCTION OF CUSTOMER SMART METER DATA

12.1 Pursuant to California Public Utilities Commission Decision No. 11-07-056 and related

decisions, utility customer smart meter usage data may only be disclosed after providing affected

customers with seven days notice and an opportunity to object to such disclosure as required by the

Decision. Pursuant to Debtor Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s tariff Electric and Gas Rules 9.M

and 27, confidential customer information is subject to similar prior notice requirements as applicable

to such customer information. To the extent Debtors produce customer smart meter usage data

subject to these rules and tariffs, Debtors shall provide affected customers with appropriate notice prior

to production and appropriate notification to the affected customers as required by the rules and tariffs.

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Producing Party and Receiving Party shall comply with all federal and state privacy laws as applicable

to customer data under this Order.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek

its modification by the Court in the future, including as this Order applies to any particular contested

matter or adversary proceeding.

13.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. Nothing in this Order waives any right by a Party that

it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not

addressed in this Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence

of any of the material covered by this Order.

13.3 Continuing Applicability Of Order. The provisions of this Order shall survive the

Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy for any retained Discovery Material. The Debtors’ emergence

from Bankruptcy shall not relieve the Parties from their responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of

Discovery Material pursuant to this Order, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms

of this Order.

13.4 Amendment Of Order. This Order is subject to modification by this Court upon good

cause shown by any Party. Nothing herein shall preclude a Party from applying at any time (including,

without limitation, after the conclusion of these Chapter 11 proceedings) to the Court for relief from

(including, without limitation termination of) any or all of the provisions of this Order. The Debtors

and the Party seeking to modify or terminate the Order shall meet and confer in good faith to reach an

agreement on any issues in dispute concerning the meaning, application, or interpretation of this Order

prior to any application to the Court for resolution of such dispute. A Producing Party and a Receiving

Party may agree to modify this Order as it applies to a particular production or a particular proceeding

in the Cases with (7) business days prior notice to the Debtors.

13.5 Use Of Discovery Material By Producing Party. Nothing in this Order affects the right

of any Producing Party to use or disclose its own Discovery Material in any way. Such disclosure will

not waive the protections of this Order and will not otherwise entitle other Parties or their attorneys to

use or disclose such Discovery Material in violation of this Order.

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13.6 Obligations Of Parties. Nothing herein shall relieve a Party of its obligations under the

Federal Rules, Bankruptcy Rules, Local Rules, or under any future stipulations and orders, regarding

the production of documents or the making of timely responses to Discovery Requests in connection

with any Dispute or the Chapter 11 Cases.

13.7 Advice ofOf Counsel. Nothing herein shall prevent or otherwise restrict counsel from

rendering advise to their clients in connection with these Chapter 11 proceedings and, in the course

thereof, relying on examination of Protected Material; provided, however, that in rendering such advice

and otherwise communicating with such client, counsel shall not make specific disclosure of any

information in any manner that is inconsistent with the restrictions or procedures set forth herein.

13.8 Enforcement. The provisions of this Order constitute an Order of this Court and

violations of the provisions of this Order are subject to enforcement and the imposition of legal

sanctions in the same manner as any other Order of the Court.

14. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 90 days after the conclusion of the Debtors’ emergence from Bankruptcy, unless

otherwise ordered by the Court, a Producing Person that has producedeach Receiving Party must

return all Protected Material under this Order may make a written request to the ReceivingProducing

Partiesy that all suchor destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material

produced by such Producing Person and copies thereof be returned to the Producing Person” includes

all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of

the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed. Within 30 days after

receipt of such written request, the Receiving Party shall take all commercially reasonable steps to

return or destroy the Protected Material produced by the so requesting Producing Person and copies

thereof, and provide a certification to the Producing Person that the Protected Material has been

returned or destroyed, except that: counsel may retain for its records their work product and a copy of

court filings, deposition transcripts, deposition videotapes, deposition exhibits, expert reports, and

exhibits introduced at any hearing; and a Receiving Party may retain Protected Material that is authoarchived or otherwise “backed up” on electronic management and communications systems or servers,

or as may be required for regulatory recordkeeping purposes; provided that such retained documents

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will continue to be treated as provided in this Ordermust submit a written certification to the Producing

Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 90 day deadline that (1)

identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed

and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries

or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this

provision, Outside Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial,

deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits,

expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials

contain Protected Material. A Receiving Party’s obligations under this paragraph shall not require the

destruction or return of Confidential, Highly Confidential or Professional Eyes Only Material by

Outside Counsel that is stored on backup storage or in archiving solutions made in accordance with

regular data backup procedures for disaster recovery or litigation hold, provided that Outside Counsel

maintains the confidentiality thereof in accordance with this Order. If a Receiving Party chooses to take

all commercially reasonable steps to destroy, rather than return, documents in accordance with this

paragraph, that Receiving Party shall, if requested by the Producing Party, verify such destruction in

writing to counsel for the Producing Party. Notwithstanding anything in this paragraph, to the extent

that the information in the Discovery Material remains confidential, the terms of this Order shall remain

binding.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________________ _________________________________________

Judge Dennis Montali

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print

or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the

Confidentiality and Protective Order that was issued by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the

Northern District of California on [date] in In re PG&E Corp., et al., CASE NO. 3:19-bk-30088 (the

“Order”). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of the Order and I understand and

acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of

contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is

subject to the Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of the

Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Confidentiality and

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as

my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to

enforcement of the Order.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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