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Jury Finds Michael Avenatti To Blame In His Decade-Old Fight Over Unpaid Attorney Fees; Exonerates Former Clients

On June 22, 2022, an Orange County civil jury found in favor of William Parrish and E. Timothy Fitzgibbons, and against Stoll, Nussbaum & Polakov, their former lawyers who had sued them for claimed attorney fees in a prior case. The jury returned a verdict in two hours, ruling against the Stoll law firm 12-0 on every claim.  The jury [ More... ]

By |2022-06-24T15:05:24-07:00June 24th, 2022|Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News|
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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... ]

By |2022-07-01T06:57:46-07:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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$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... ]

By |2022-05-16T07:55:27-07:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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$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... ]

By |2023-09-07T17:13:12-07:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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$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... ]

By |2022-05-14T15:02:41-07:00May 14th, 2022|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Judge Grants Montecito Homeowners Injunction Over Parking Plan for Hot Springs Trailhead

Four Montecito homeowners have won a temporary injunction to block Santa Barbara County from moving forward on a plan to install parking spaces along East Mountain Drive near the Hot Springs Trailhead.Superior Court Judge Donna Geck concluded that the county's parking plan cannot move forward until it is determined whether an environmental review is needed.The county wants to add parking spaces along [ More... ]

By |2022-08-31T20:11:17-07:00May 10th, 2022|Firm News, News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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Law.com: CA State Judge Orders Michael Avenatti to Appear for Trial

An Orange County Superior Court judge has issued a writ commanding a federal prison warden to produce inmate Michael Avenatti for in-person testimony this week at the West Justice Center in Westminster, California, recently renamed the Stephen K. Tamura Justice Center. Avenatti has said he'll only appear via video and will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but [ More... ]

By |2023-09-07T17:12:53-07:00April 4th, 2022|Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News|
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A. Barry Cappello and Leila Noël Selected to 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers List

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been selected to the 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of attorneys are named to the list each year. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, [ More... ]

By |2022-04-26T13:28:49-07:00January 21st, 2022|News|
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Cardi B And Tattooed Guy Held 5-Hour Settlement Talks – It Didn’t End Well – AllHipHop.com

Rap star Cardi B and her tattooed nemesis Kevin Michael Brophy took another shot at settling a $5 million lawsuit over claims she stole his back tattoo yesterday (December 1st). A settlement conference was held via Zoom between their lawyers, with Magistrate Judge Rosenbluth, overseeing the settlement talks. Brophy’s lawyer A. Barry Cappello and Lawrence J. Conlan took on Cardi’s [ More... ]

By |2021-12-07T08:41:25-08:00December 3rd, 2021|Entertainment Law, Firm News, News|
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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... ]

By |2021-12-03T14:15:17-08:00December 3rd, 2021|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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