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Edison’s Thomas Fire demurrers sustained, plaintiffs can amend/Daily Journal

Edison demurred to the class action claims on the grounds that a utility cannot be held liable to third parties for purely economic loss resulting from a public disaster, according to a 2019 ruling in Southern California Gas Leak Cases. Highberger on Tuesday overruled the demurrer as to claims of inverse condemnation, private nuisance and trespass, while sustaining with leave [ More... ]

Judge Approves $230 Million Settlement for Fishing Industry Members And Shoreline Residents Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

On September 20, Federal District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted final approval of a combined $230 million class action settlement arising out of Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Refugio Oil Spill on the Santa Barbara coast. The court’s approval clears the way for the settlement administrator to begin processing and paying claims submitted by affected fishers and property owners. [ More... ]

By |2022-09-22T16:12:35-07:00September 22nd, 2022|Class Actions, Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News, Toxic Tort|

Plains All American Pipeline Agrees to Pay $230 Million to Fishing Industry, Shoreline Residents – SB Noozhawk

Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit, and pay $230 million to fishers, fish processors, and shoreline property residents damaged by the Refugio oil spill in 2015. On May 19, 2015, a Plains pipeline ruptured on the Gaviota Coast, spilling up to 630,000 gallons, or 15,000 barrels, of crude oil onto the shoreline and into the ocean. [ More... ]

$230 million settlement reached in 2015 SB oil spill lawsuit – KEYT-TV

On Saturday, officials announced that Plains All American Pipeline agreed to pay $230 million as a result of class action lawsuit filed against the company for the 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill. This settlement will go towards members of two classes in the lawsuit – the fishers, fish processors and shoreline property residents – for the damages caused seven years [ More... ]

$230 million settlement reached in 2015 SB oil spill lawsuit – Santa Barbara News-Press

A settlement has finally been reached in the seven year-lawsuit regarding the 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill. Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay $230 million to fishers, fish processors and shoreline property residents who are members of two classes in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company. The lawsuit was filed after a corroded pipeline spilled an estimated [ More... ]

$230 Million Class Action Settlement Reached For Fishing Industry Members And Shoreline Residents Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay $230 million to fishers, fish processors and shoreline property residents who are members of two classes in a class action lawsuit filed against the company after a corroded pipeline spilled an estimated 15,000 barrels of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean in 2015. The class members are represented by Cappello & Noël [ More... ]

Oil Demand, Climate Change Clash in California Pipeline Plan–AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A proposal to replace an oil pipeline that was shut down in 2015 after causing California’s worst coastal spill in 25 years is inching though a government review, even as the state moves toward banning gas-powered vehicles and oil drilling. Consideration of the $300 million proposal by Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline is expected to enter [ More... ]

Oceanfront Property Owners File Class Action Lawsuit Against Amplify Energy

A class action lawsuit was filed October 6, 2021 against Houston, Texas-based Amplify Energy arising out of the October 2, 2021 oil pipeline spill that reportedly discharged at least 126,000 gallons of toxic crude oil into the ocean along the Orange County, California coastline. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of beachfront property owners affected by the spill. (Stephen [ More... ]

By |2021-10-13T17:26:49-07:00October 8th, 2021|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News|

Judge Allows Property Owner Claims to Proceed

In a March 17 ruling, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District of California denied Plains All American Pipeline’s attempt to escape liability for the harm its 2015 Refugio State Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara caused to coastal property owners after the rupture of its Santa Barbara County pipeline. The spill occurred when a 10-mile-long, 24-inch-wide [ More... ]

Refugio Oil Spill Victims Ask for Their Day in Court

Santa Barbara Independent - By Jean Yamamura, Feb 22, 2020. The trials continue of Plains All American Pipeline, the Texas-based company that was found guilty in 2018 of releasing 3,400 barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean near Refugio Beach in May 2015. Most recently in Judge James Herman’s courtroom, Plains brought a motion to strike some victims’ ability to [ More... ]

By |2020-02-24T08:44:53-08:00February 24th, 2020|Class Actions, Firm News, News|
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