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GANTNER v. PG & E CORPORATION

No. S273340.

15 Cal. 5th 396 (2023)

538 P.3d 676

ANTHONY GANTNER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PG & E CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

November 20, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips, Erlewine, Given & Carlin, Nicholas A. Carlin , Brian S. Conlon , Kyle P. O'Malley ; Hausfeld, Bonny E. Sweeney , Seth R. Gassman and Tae H. Kim for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Glancy Prongay & Murray and Jonathan M. Rotter for Former President of the Public Utilities Commission Loretta Lynch, Former Administrative Law Judge Steven Weissman and Professor Seth Davis as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Omid H. Nasab ; Horvitz & Levy, Robert H. Wright and Jeremy B. Rosen for Defendants and Respondents.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, J. Kain Day and Henry Weissmann for Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Vinson & Elkins, Mortimer H. Hartwell , Jeremy C. Marwell , Matthew X. Etchemendy and Nathan T. Campbell for Edison Electric Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Christine Jun Hammond, Candace J. Morey and Mary McKenzie for the California Public Utilities Commission as Amicus Curiae.

Justice Liu authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Guerrero and Justices Corrigan, Groban, Jenkins, Evans, and O'Rourke concurred.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) conducted a series of emergency power shutoffs, called Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), throughout the fall of 2019 to reduce the risk that its utility infrastructure would ignite a wildfire during extreme weather conditions. Plaintiff Anthony Gantner alleges that these...

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