SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $14.35 million fine levied against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. by the California Public Utilities Commission for providing false information to the commission in the wake of the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion.
In a 63-page order, the First District Court of Appeal determined the fine, the largest ever imposed by the PUC for a violation of its ethics rule, was not unconstitutionally excessive. The commission’s calculation was based on a $50,000-per-day penalty running from the time PG&E discovered its error to the day it was formally corrected to the agency’s satisfaction by PG&E’s lead counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
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