Calif. Jury Supports CPUC in Whistleblower Case

The California Public Utilities Commission got a favorable jury verdict on a lawsuit against the agency by former Executive Director Alice Stebbins, the CPUC said Friday. Stebbins claimed in a December 2020 lawsuit at the California Superior Court for San Francisco County that she was fired in August 2020 for whistleblowing (case CGC-20-588148). Stebbins claimed she had found $200 million in uncollected revenue from companies regulated by the CPUC, but when she reported it, she lost her job. Stebbins is “very disappointed” and “evaluating next steps,” her attorney, Therese Cannata, emailed us Friday.