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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

In re: 

PG&E CORPORATION,

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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).

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Bankruptcy Case

No. 19-30088-DM

Chapter 11

Jointly Administered

Date: October 8, 2019

Time: 10:00 AM (Pacific Time)

Place: Courtroom 17

450 Golden Gate Ave.

16th Floor

San Francisco, CA

ORDER SETTING MOTION TO APPROVE FEE PROCEDURES

The Fee Examiner, Bruce A. Markell (the “Examiner”), has 

requested a status conference on September 25, 2019 regarding 

various fee request matters. He filed his request on September 

16, 2019, without setting a hearing or uploading an order 

setting the hearing. In his request he has identified issues he 

would like clarified; in some instances he has made 

Signed and Filed: September 17, 2019

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DENNIS MONTALI

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge

Entered on Docket 

September 17, 2019

EDWARD J. EMMONS, CLERK 

U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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recommendations for resolution; in other he seeks guidance or 

rulings from the court. 

Given the importance of these issues to all affected 

professionals and the potential impact on these estates, the 

court is unwilling to act as quickly or as summarily as the 

Examiner proposes.

Instead, the following procedure will apply. No later than 

September 19, 2019, the Examiner should file a Motion to Approve 

Fee Procedures, setting forth again his summary of the problems 

he has observed, his recommended solutions for those problems, 

and his specific identification of questions (which the court 

expects to be few or none) for which he has no recommendations 

and on which he expects direction from the court.

Because many of the affected professionals may be new to 

any bankruptcy court, or at least this one, the Motion should 

call to their attention that the procedures being recommended by 

the Examiner and to be approved by the court will be binding on 

them in these cases and thus any objections they may have will 

likely be considered waived if they do not timely make them.

In that regard, the Motion should specifically call to the 

affected professionals’ attention the long-standing published 

Guidelines for Compensation and Expense Reimbursement of 

Professionals and Trustees and this Court’s long-standing 

published Practices and Procedures in Judge Montali’s Court, 

especially Paragraphs II, J and III, I (re Travel and Conflicts 

Checks/Ethical Walls), all on the court’s website. 

There is no need for the Motion to include the first three 

exhibits to the request, as they are all part of the record. 

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The Motion should be addressed to the twenty-three professionals 

as respondents to the Motion (referring to them as “The parties 

named in the attached exhibit”, and attaching Exhibit 4). 

The Motion will be set on the Court’s regular PG&E calendar 

for October 8, 2019, at 10:00 AM. ECF service on the 

respondents (and all other interested parties) will suffice. 

Any respondents (or anyone else wishing to be heard, especially 

the United States Trustee), must file their responses to the 

Motion no later than October 1, 2019, with chambers copies 

provided. No replies are to be filed. 

**END OF ORDER**

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