Litigation & Arbitration
Nov. 13, 2023
CPUC discovery objections struck in former official’s lawsuit
At the heart of the dispute is plaintiff Lucian Filler’s claim that he was fired in March 2021 after he “identified several areas of fiscal and administrative waste, fraud, and abuse, and reported his findings.
A San Francisco pro tem judge struck down discovery objections from the California Public Utilities Commission and ordered it to turn over non-privileged documents to the commission’s former deputy executive director in a putative whistleblower lawsuit.
In a tentative order adopted Thursday, Judge Pro Tem Paul Renne declined to grant three of the plaintiff’s four requests for further responses to discovery requests but overruled most of th...