Hillman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ERIN HILLMAN, et al., No. 2:21-cv-00848-MCE-CKD Plaintiffs, v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER PACIFICORP and DOES 1 through 50, Inclusive, 15 Defendants.

17 Through this action, Plaintiff Erin Hillman and 269 other individuals and entities (“Plaintiffs”) seek to recover property damage sustained as a result of the so-called Slater Fire, a September 2020 conflagration that they allege destroyed some 2,000 structures and burned over 158,000 acres within Northern California’s Siskiyou and Del Norte counties. Plaintiffs allege that Defendant PacifiCorp (“Defendant” or “PacifiCorp”), an electrical power provider, caused the fire both by negligent vegetation management and the negligent maintenance, inspection, repair, operation and ownership of its electricity distribution system. Plaintiffs’ lawsuit was commenced by the filing of a complaint in Sacramento County Superior Court on February 1, 2021, that alleged purely state law claims for inverse…