Perspective
Nov. 21, 2012
Certiorari denied in privately-owned public utility inverse condemnation case
Many privately owned public utilities were hoping the state Supreme Court would grant review and hold that inverse condemnation law did not apply to them. By Craig S. Simon & Mark S. Grotefeld
On Nov. 14 the state Supreme Court denied review to Southern California Edison, which sought reversal of Pacific Bell Telephone Company v. Southern California Edison Co., 208 Cal. App. 4th 1400 (Aug. 30, 2012). This new Court of Appeal decision upholds and explains Barham v. Southern California Edison Co., 74 Cal. App. 4th 744 (1999), which concluded that any public utility can be liable for an unconstitutiona...
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