There’s something about this that just doesn’t sound right, about stonewalling public information like this. That’s the optics of where we are: There’s something the PUC [California Public Utilities Commission] doesn’t want out there.
— Judge Ernest Goldsmith, during a hearing last week in a lawsuit brought by consumer attorney Michael Aguirre seeking the release of documents the Public Utility Commission claims are not subject to California’s Public Records Act. The lawsuit is seeking documents which detail the Commission’s decision to have consumers pay 70% of a settlement over the installation of flawed equipment in a nuclear power plant that subsequently leaked radiation and had to be shut down in 2012.