SCOTT v. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

Docket No. S042601.

11 Cal.4th 454 (1995)

904 P.2d 834

46 Cal. Rptr.2d 427

C. BYRON SCOTT et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 13, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wylie, McBride, Jesinger, Sure & Platten and Christopher E. Platten for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Joseph Posner, Quackenbush & Quackenbush and William C. Quackenbush as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Howard V. Colub, J. Michael Reidenbach, Deborah S. Shefler, Maureen L. Fries and Bruce R. Worthington for Defendant and Appellant.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Jonathan H. Sakol, Denise M. Derose, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Lawrence A. Michaels and Adam Levin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

C. Byron Scott and Al Johnson were engineers employed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in a senior managerial capacity when they were demoted. The demotion resulted in an approximately 25 percent reduction in salary and benefits, as well as a loss of all supervisorial authority. They sued, claiming, among other things, that PG&E had breached an implied-in-fact contract term not to demote their employees...

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