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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SAN FRANCISCO

 

Robert A. Julian (SBN 88469)

Cecily A. Dumas (SBN 111449) 

BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 

1160 Battery Street, Suite 100 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 628.208.6434 

Facsimile: 310.820.8859 

Email: rjulian@bakerlaw.com 

Email: cdumas@bakerlaw.com 

Eric E. Sagerman (SBN 155496) 

Lauren T. Attard (SBN 320898) 

BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 

11601 Wilshire Boulevard 

Suite 1400 

Los Angeles, CA 90025 

Telephone: 310.820.8800 

Facsimile: 310.820.8859 

Email: esagerman@bakerlaw.com 

Email: lattard@bakerlaw.com 

Counsel for Official Committee of Tort 

Claimants

Michael A. Kelly (SBN 71460)

WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & 

SCHOENBERGER 

650 California Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Telephone: 415.981.7210 

Facsimile: 415.391.6965 

Email: mkelly@walkuplawoffice.com 

Frank M. Pitre (SBN 100077) 

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY, LLP 

840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200 

Burlingame, CA 94010 

Telephone: 650.697.6000 

Facsimile: 650.697.0577 

Email: fpitre@cpmlegal.com 

Co-lead counsel in Judicial Council 

Coordination Proceeding entitled California 

North Bay Fire Cases, JCCP No. 4995 

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

In re:

PG&E CORPORATION 

-andPACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC 

COMPANY, 

 Debtors 

Case No. 19-30088 (DM)

Chapter 11 

(Lead Case) 

(Jointly Administered) 

□ 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) 

JOINDER OF CO-LEAD COUNSEL TO 

THE NORTH BAY FIRE CASES, JCCP 

4995, ON BEHALF OF THE PROPOSED 

TUBBS PREFERENCE PLAINTIFFS, TO 

MOTION OF THE OFFICIAL 

COMMITTEE OF TORT CLAIMANTS 

FOR RELIEF FROM AUTOMATIC STAY 

TO PERMIT STATE COURT JURY 

TRIAL OF 2017 TUBBS WILDFIRE 

CLAIMS 

 

Date: July 23, 2019 

Time: 9:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) 

Place: United States Bankruptcy Court 

Courtroom 17, 16 Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94102

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Michael A. Kelly, of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, and Frank M. Pitre of 

Cotchett, Pitre & Mccarthy, LLP, in their capacity as co-lead counsel1 in the Judicial Council 

Coordination Proceeding entitled California North Bay Fire Cases, JCCP No. 4995, pending in the 

Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, on behalf of Barbara Thompson, 

John Caslin, Elizabeth Fourkas, Phyllis Lowe, Raymond Breitenstein, Don Louis Kamprath, 

Raleigh Fohrman, and William Edelen (together, the “Proposed Tubbs Preference Plaintiffs”), 

hereby join the motion (the “Motion”) of the Official Committee of Tort Claimants (“TCC”) in 

the above-captioned chapter 11 cases of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

(collectively, the “Debtors”) pursuant to sections 362(d)(1) of title 11 of the United States Code 

sections 1334(c) and 1452(b) of title 28, Rules 4001 and 5011(b) of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy 

Procedure and Rule 4004-1 of the Bankruptcy Local Rules for the United States District Court for 

the Northern District of California, for entry of an order terminating the automatic stay to permit 

the claims of the Proposed Tubbs Preference Plaintiffs to proceed to a jury trial on their personal 

injury and related property damage claims against the Debtors arising from the 2017 Tubbs Fire in 

the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, as set forth in their Complaints 

against the Debtors, as may be amended, and to request the Court in the California North Bay Fire 

Cases, JCCP 4955, to order the Tubbs Fire Claims to trial with preference pursuant to Code of Civil 

Procedure section 36. 

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 The Court in JCCP 4995 appointed Mr. Kelly and Mr. Pitre co-lead counsel in Case Management Order No.1, dated 

March 6, 2018, attached as Exhibit A to the Declaration of Michael A. Kelly, filed contemporaneously herewith. 

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The TCC supports this joinder to its Motion. 

Dated: July 2, 2019 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

By: /s/ Robert A. Julian 

Robert A. Julian 

Counsel for The Official Committee of Tort 

Claimants 

WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & 

SCHOENBERGER

By: 

Michael A. Kelly 

Co-lead counsel in North Bay Fire Cases, 

JCCP No. 4995

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY, LLP

By: 

Frank M. Pitre 

Co-lead counsel in North Bay Fire Cases, 

JCCP No. 4995 

/s/ Frank M. Pitre

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