Print
A lawsuit aimed at turning back a recently created California wildfire fund ran into some skepticism from a panel of three judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday.
“In my opinion, you haven’t shown us why this belongs in federal court and that’s your burden,” Judge Ryan Nelson told Michael Aguirre, a San Diego attorney who argued that significant portions of Assembly Bill 1054 should be tossed out.
Passed by the Legislature, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in 2019, AB 1054 created a $21 billion insurance fund the state’s big three investor-owned utilities can access should their equipment ignite a wildfire.