Ninth Circuit Has Not Taken Action Yet.
As reported by Jeff McDonald in a November 15, 2018 post in a local San Diego newspaper, the California Public Utilities Commission is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to not dismiss an appeal contesting a settlement reached between certain parties contesting the amount that consumers should bear in the San Onofre closure costs. In that settlement, the suing parties’ firm of Aguirre & Severson received attorney’s fees of $5.4 million, allegedly less than 1% of the savings that consumers would realize under the settlement. PUC and another watchdog group claims that the settlement was improper and that the fee recovery was unfair also. The Ninth Circuit has not yet ruled on the motion.