Mealey's ( June 4, 2021, 8:27 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California appeals court on May 26 affirmed a coordinating court’s denial of additional attorney fees and costs totaling as much as $2.25 million for a class in the Antelope Valley groundwater adjudication, saying the applicants had not met any of the exceptions listed in a 2010 settlement of their water right claims and were not entitled to additional fees and costs under California’s private attorney general doctrine....