EXHIBIT B

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San Francl:=;r;r; n-Jt rnty Sw:;e.rfor 

JUL l O 2018 

BY:CLEmm C?UAT 

Deputy Clerk 

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 

COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 

COORDINATION PROCEEDING 

SPEC~ TITLE [RULE 3.550] 

California North Bay Fire Cases 

Judicial Council Coordination 

Proceeding No.: 4955 

CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER NO. 2 

I conducted a case management conference (CMC) July 9, 2018. 

Deadline to add.further defendants or cross defendants: July 31, 2018. A party must 

seek leave of court (which may be done ex parte, CRC rule 3.1200 et seq.) to add such party after 

this deadline. Among other things, the papers should show (i) why the party could not have been 

named before the deadline, and (ii) any anticipated impact on discovery cut-off, trial, or other 

relevant dates set. 

Confidentiality & Sealing. The parties are reminded that no sealing motion may be 

required when confidential information on e.g., an exhibit filed in the public file is be redacted, 

because the court may not need to review the confidential materials for purposes of determining 

the underlying motion. 

Deposition and document production. Plaintiffs have indicated they have issued their 

document demands, and requested documents with notices of deposition, in contemplation of 

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what I will term here first wave depositions.1 (Further document demands, in addition to those 

produced during ESI discovery, are likely.) I ask the parties to rapidly resolve their 

disagreements on which documents are needed for this first wave and promptly to bring 

remaining disagreements to me for resolution, so that we may proceed rapidly with these 

depositions. The parties are free to set depositions as they wish, but absent an agreement may be 

required to justify any subsequent effort to take a deposition based on e.g., newly discovered 

documents. 

ES/related discovery. While plaintiffs have issued the 'lion's share' of their demands, 

they should now make best efforts to issue all the foreseeable remainder of their demands so that 

PG&E is aware of the full scope of ~e demands. In general, the use of TAR is most effective 

when parties agree on the total scope of discoverable .documents such that the algorithm is 

trained on all relevant items. The p~~s told me the ongoing work on ESI will not interfere with 

first wave depositions. 

Discovery addressed to Plaintiffs. The parties agree to have lead plaintiffs! counsel 

obtain responses from all plaintiffs to the questions, in eff~ct: (i) if they saw what could have 

been ignition of a fire, or (ii) know of someone who may have done so, or said they did. No 

verified responses are required. Subsequent discovery may be based on those results. 

In chambers meeting. I have asked lead counsel to meet with me to discuss conditions for 

settlement, i.e. the likely timing of, and evidence needed for, settlement discussions. No orders 

will issue from this meeting, and I will not conduct settlement discussions nor learn of the 

parties' substantive positions on settlement. This is set for August.3, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. 

1 Eyewitnesses, first responders (including third parties); personnel maintaining and inspecting lines, tree 

'prelisters' and trimmers. The use of the term 'first wave, may change after the next CM~ when I obtain discovery 

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Next CMC. The next CMC is set for September 17, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. The parties' joint 

CMC statement should reflect the results of their prior meet-and-confer on at least these subjects: 

(1) A discovery plan, roughly mapping out phases of discovery.· It is likely that this will 

consist of both discovery applicable to (i) all fires ( e.g. PG&E policies and practices and other 

corporate level discovery), and (ii) the fires on a fire-by-fire basis. I expect the parties in general 

to plan on simultaneous discovery acr~ss the fires; 

(2) A brief description of outstanding discovery and its status; 

(3) estimates on when (if necessary on a fire by fire basis) percipient discovery is likely 

to be complete, and any suggestions for discovery cut-off dates, and if a party contends these 

should not now be set, when they should be set; 

(4) the parties' preliminary thoughts on trial setting, such as (a) whether bellwethers 

should be selected, and if so, whether a trial regarding one fire could be treated as a bellwether 

for a different and distinct fire; (b) when the court and the parties should plan on fixing the trial 

strategy and when a case is likely to be ready for trial (i.e. estimated trial date); and ( c) counties 

in which trial should be held; 

( 5) depending on PG&E' s position on liability, alternatives to trial., such as hearings on 

damages determined by e.g., Referees or pursuant to expedited jury trials (CCP § 630.03), etc. 

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Curtis E.A. Kam.ow 

Judge Of The Superior Court 

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CERTIFICATE OF ELECTRONIC SERVICE 

(CCP 1010.6(6) & CRC 2.260(g)) 

I, DANIAL LEMIRE, a Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of San 

Francisco, certify that I am not a party to the within action. 

On 'JUL 1 i 2018 , I electronically served THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT via 

File & ServeXpress on the recipients designated on the Transaction Receipt located on the File & 

ServeXpress web~!foL 12 2018 

Dated: 

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DANIAL LEMIRE, Deputy Clerk 

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