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Santa Barbara News-Press: Refugio spill claimants gear up for court

By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR August 25, 2016 Attorneys representing property owners, oil rig workers, commercial fishing-boat operators and others who say they were harmed by the Plains All American Pipeline oil spill at Refugio State Beach will appear before a federal judge in November for a hearing on whether the consolidated cases will proceed as a class-action matter. [ More... ]

By |2018-02-13T16:20:59-08:00August 26th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Class Action Motion For Certification Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline

A class of plaintiffs injured by the May 19, 2015 Plains oil pipeline rupture and oil spill near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have filed a motion for class certification. (Keith Andrews, et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., Case No. 2:15-CV-04113-PSG-JEM, U.S. District Court, Central District of Calif., August 22, 2016) Plains owns and controls the [ More... ]

By |2018-02-13T16:21:08-08:00August 25th, 2016|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Class Action Filed By Property Owners Where Plains Pipeline Located

Santa Barbara, Calif. (May 9, 2016)—Property owners that have easement agreements allowing Plains All American to run its oil pipelines on their property have filed a class action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Plains to repair and improve its corroded pipelines in Santa Barbara County so they operate within the parameters [ More... ]

By |2018-02-13T16:21:24-08:00May 10th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, News|
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Federal Court Hearing on Volkswagen A.G. Emissions Case

Cappello & Noël participated in the April 21, 2016 federal court hearing regarding the Volkswagen emission scandal.  The hearing lasted just 15 minutes.  Clearly, most of the details still are missing from the proposed settlement, and the Court made it clear that these details still needed fleshing out.  We are monitoring the matter closely.  Once we have all the necessary [ More... ]

By |2018-02-13T16:21:32-08:00April 22nd, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News|
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Judge Invalidates Plains All American Pipeline’s Settlement Releases and Orders Plains to Stop Its Misleading Communications with Oil Spill Victims

On March 3, 2016, a U.S. District Court judge invalidated the settlement releases that Plains All American Pipeline required claimants to sign during its claims process.  The court found that Plains was attempting “to steer those victims towards unwittingly waiving their rights to full recovery” available to them through the class action filed after the company’s May 19, 2015 oil [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:07:06-07:00March 4th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Pacific Coast Business Times: Judge Denies Plains’ Request to Delay Oil Spill Lawsuit

By Alex Kacik /   Thursday, February 25th, 2016 A U.S. district judge denied Plains All American Pipeline’s request to put a six-month hold on the class-action lawsuit stemming from the Refugio oil spill. Judge Philip Gutierrez issued an order on Feb. 25 that denied Plains’ motion because Plains did not make a clear case on how a delay, or [ More... ]

By |2023-09-07T17:04:58-07:00February 26th, 2016|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Ventura County Star: Volkswagen test site in Oxnard a focus of class-action suit over emissions cheating

Gretchen Wenner Sep 30, 2015 OXNARD, Calif. - A Volkswagen emissions compliance laboratory in Oxnard is a focus of at least one class-action lawsuit filed in the wake of the carmaker’s emissions cheating scandal. “Our view is that the Oxnard test center is at the heart of this,” said Leila Noël of Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:08:54-07:00September 30th, 2015|Class Actions, News|
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed By Volkswagen Owners in Wake of Company Admitting to Deceiving Public Over Pollutant Emissions

A class action lawsuit was filed against Volkswagen Group of America by six California Volkswagen diesel owners who say they now face loss of vehicle value, decreased resale opportunities and degradation of vehicle performance after Volkswagen recently admitted that since 2009 it circumvented emission test procedures to produce misleading pollution test results. (Peter Park, et al vs. Volkswagen Group of [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:11:07-07:00September 21st, 2015|Class Actions, Firm News, News|
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Santa Barbara Oil Spill Class Action Legal Counsel Agree to Consolidate; Cappello & Noël and A. Barry Cappello Named Lead Trial Counsel, Lieff Cabraser and Keller Rohrback, Co-Lead Counsel

Five law firms representing the six class action cases currently filed against Plains All American Pipeline stemming from the May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have agreed to consolidate their efforts in a September 15, 2015 motion made to the United States District Court in Los Angeles. The five firms, acting as [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:11:27-07:00September 18th, 2015|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Class Action Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline By Oil Industry Workers Affected By Santa Barbara Oil Spill

A class action lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline was filed September 4 on behalf of oil industry workers who were laid off as a result of the company’s May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. (Richard Lilygren v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, [ More... ]

By |2022-08-31T20:18:31-07:00September 14th, 2015|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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