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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

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Email: lattard@bakerlaw.com

Counsel for Official Committee of Tort Claimants

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

In re:

PG&E CORPORATION

-andPACIFIC 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)

EX PARTE MOTION OF THE 

OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF TORT 

CLAIMANTS PURSUANT TO B.L.R. 

9006-1 REQUESTING ORDER 

SHORTENING TIME FOR HEARING 

ON MOTION TO COMPEL 

PRODUCTION OF PG&E BUSINESS 

PLANS

[No hearing requested]

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The Official Committee of Tort Claimants (hereafter, the “TCC”) in the above-captioned 

chapter 11 cases (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company (collectively, the “Debtors” or “PG&E”), hereby submits this Motion (the “Motion to 

Shorten”), pursuant to Rule 9006-1 of the Bankruptcy Local Rules for the United States 

Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (the “Bankruptcy Local Rules”), for 

entry of an order shortening time for a hearing on the TCC’s motion to compel production of PG&E 

Business Plans (the “TCC Motion”). A proposed form of order granting the relief requested herein 

is annexed hereto as Exhibit A (the “Proposed Order”).

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES

I. JURISDICTION

The Court has jurisdiction to consider this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 1334, 

the Order Referring Bankruptcy Cases and Proceedings to Bankruptcy Judges, General Order 24 

(N.D. Cal.), and Bankruptcy Local Rule 5011-1(a). This is a core proceeding pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§ 157(b). Venue is proper before the Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1408 and 1409.

II. BASIS FOR RELIEF SOUGHT

Pursuant to Bankruptcy Local Rule 9014-1(c)(2), a hearing on the TCC Motion requires at 

least twenty-one (21) days’ notice of an opportunity for a hearing. Bankruptcy Local 

Rule 9006-1(a) provides that, except as set forth therein, “approval of the Court is required to 

enlarge or to shorten time to perform any act or file any paper pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedures, the Bankruptcy Rules, or these Bankruptcy Local Rules.” B.L.R. 9006-1(a).

The Court’s approval is warranted here. The hearing on PG&E’s motion for the 

Establishment of Wildfire Claims Estimations Procedures (“Estimations Procedures”) is set for 

August 27, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. The bankruptcy case is proceeding quickly with Assembly Bill No. 

1054 compelling a conclusion by June 30, 2020. The bar date for filing claims is just over two 

months away. PG&E filed its Supplemental Statement and Plan of Reorganization Timeline in 

Support of Opposition to Motions to Terminate Exclusivity [Dkt. No. 3515] (“Reorganization 

Timeline”) on August 12, 2019. On August 16, 2019, the Court denied motions to terminate 

PG&E’s plan exclusivity. The TCC has been seeking the documents identified in the TCC Motion 

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since March 8, 2019. The TCC Motion seeks documents directly relevant to the Estimations 

Procedures and PG&E’s Reorganization Timeline. The present urgency of those matters and the 

accelerated pace of the case justify shortening time for the Motion. 

Using the Court’s 21-day notice period, the next available PG&E omnibus hearing date is 

September 10, 2019. That hearing date would be after the hearing on the Estimations Procedures, 

which would incentivize PG&E to continue to withhold the desired documents until after the critical 

Estimations Procedures hearing on August 27, 2019. To this end, the TCC requests that notice be 

shortened to permit the TCC Motion to be heard on August 27, 2019 with the Estimations 

Procedures. The TCC requests that the Court set an appropriate objection deadline in conjunction 

with the shortened time and proposes that an objection deadline of August 26, 2019 would provide 

PG&E with adequate time to elect to simply produce the documents identified in the TCC Motion 

and obviate the need for a hearing.

III. NOTICE

Notice of this Motion to Shorten will be provided to (i) the Debtors, c/o PG&E Corporation 

and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PO Box 770000, 77 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 

(Attn: Janet Loduca, Esq.); (ii) Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, New 

York 10153 (Attn: Stephen Karotkin, Esq., Jessica Liou, Esq., and Matthew Goren, Esq.), proposed 

attorneys for the Debtors; (iii) Keller & Benvenutti LLP, 650 California Street, Suite 1900, San 

Francisco, CA 94108 (Attn: Tobias Keller, Esq. and Jane Kim, Esq.), proposed attorneys for the 

Debtors; (iv) Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, 180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038-4982 

(Attn: Kristopher M. Hansen, Esq., Erez E. Gilad, Esq., and Matthew G. Garofalo, Esq.) and 2029 

Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067-3086 (Attn: Frank A. Merola, Esq.), as counsel for the 

administrative agent under the Debtors’ debtor-in-possession financing facility; (v) Davis Polk & 

Wardwell LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (Attn: Eli J. Vonnegut, Esq., David 

Schiff, Esq., and Timothy Graulich, Esq.), as counsel for the collateral agent under the Debtors’ 

debtor-in-possession financing facility; (vi) Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, 1285 

Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019-6064 (Attn: Alan W. Kornberg, Esq., Brian S. 

Hermann, Esq., Walter R. Rieman, Esq., Sean A. Mitchell, Esq., and Neal P. Donnelly, Esq.), as 

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counsel to the California Public Utilities Commission; (vii) the Office of the United States Trustee 

for Region 17, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, 5th Floor, Suite #05-0153, San Francisco, CA 94102 

(Attn: James L. Snyder, Esq. and Timothy Laffredi, Esq.); (viii) U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 (Attn: General Counsel); (ix) U.S. Department of 

Justice, 1100 L Street, NW, Room 7106, Washington DC 20005 (Attn: Danielle A. Pham, Esq.,) 

as counsel for United States on behalf of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (x) Milbank 

LLP, 55 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001-2163 (Attn: Dennis F. Dunne, Esq. and Sam A.

Khalil, Esq.) and 2029 Century Park East, 33rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067 (Attn: Paul S. 

Aronzon, Esq., Gregory A. Bray, Esq., and Thomas R. Kreller, Esq.), as counsel for the Official 

Committee of Unsecured Creditors; and (xi) those persons who have formally appeared in these 

Chapter 11 Cases and requested service pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2002. The TCC respectfully 

submits that no further notice is required.

No previous request for the relief sought herein has been made by the TCC to this or any 

other court.

WHEREFORE, the TCC respectfully requests entry of an order granting the Motion to 

Shorten, and such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and appropriate. 

Dated: August 20, 2019

BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

By: /s/ Robert A. Julian

Robert A. Julian

Counsel for The Official Committee of Tort 

Claimants

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