Mealey's (December 1, 2022, 7:27 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A $24 million class and collective action pay gender discrimination settlement between female professional soccer players and the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) can’t be properly assessed as fair or reasonable and the request for class counsel fees of $6.6 million “unreasonably and unjustifiably exceeds the 25% benchmark set by the Ninth Circuit,” retired soccer star Hope Amelia Solo Stevens argues in a response to motions for final settlement approval and for attorney fees filed in a federal court in California....