Santa Barbara News-Press: Judge orders plain truth, not Plains truth

Firm at center of Refugio spill must change its message to victims By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR March 8, 2016 Roughnecks, property owners, commercial fishermen and others who claim damages stemming from the Refugio oil spill made some headway in their federal class-action suit, convincing a judge in Los Angeles that portions of their case should move forward. At [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:32-07:00March 24th, 2016|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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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 |2024-09-27T05:29:33-07:00March 4th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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