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$70 Million Class Action Settlement Reached For Property Owners Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

On May 1, 2024, nine years after a pipeline ruptured along the Santa Barbara coastline spilling oil onto private property, Refugio State Beach and into the Pacific Ocean, U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez granted preliminary approval of a $70 million class action settlement to property owners to resolve all outstanding class claims (Grey Fox, [ More... ]

By |2024-05-03T16:10:28-07:00May 3rd, 2024|Class Actions, Firm News|0 Comments
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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 [ More... ]

By |2022-09-22T16:12:35-07:00September 22nd, 2022|Class Actions, Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News, Toxic Tort|0 Comments
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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 [ 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|0 Comments
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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 [ More... ]

By |2022-05-14T15:02:41-07:00May 14th, 2022|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|1 Comment
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Oil Workers File Lawsuits Against Plains All American Pipeline

Lawsuits were filed May 18, 2020 in Santa Barbara Superior Court against Plains All American Pipeline by oil workers and service companies supporting offshore oil rigs. The plaintiffs lost their livelihoods when the May 2015 oil spill shut down oil drilling offshore Santa Barbara. Peter Trejo et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., SB [ More... ]

By |2020-05-20T13:34:48-07:00May 20th, 2020|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|Comments Off on Oil Workers File Lawsuits Against Plains All American Pipeline
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Judge Certifies Property Owners’ Easement Class Action Against Plains

On January 28, 2020, United States District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez certified a class action lawsuit filed against Plains All American Pipeline by Santa Barbara County property owners who have easement contracts with Plains and whose properties were impacted during the 2015 Refugio oil spill. (Grey Fox, LLC et. al v. Plains All American Pipeline, [ More... ]

By |2020-01-31T14:14:59-08:00January 31st, 2020|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|Comments Off on Judge Certifies Property Owners’ Easement Class Action Against Plains
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Easement Class Action Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline

An amended class action and individual lawsuits were filed against Plains All American Pipeline by Santa Barbara County property owners who have easement contracts with Plains and whose properties were impacted during the 2015 Refugio oil spill. (Grey Fox, LLC et. al v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et. al, U.S. District Court, Central District, [ More... ]

By |2020-09-02T10:32:23-07:00December 21st, 2018|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|0 Comments
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SB Independent: Plains All American Trial Begins

Thursday, April 12, 2018, Santa Barbara Independent,  By Nick Welsh The criminal trial against Plains All American Pipeline — the Texas-based company whose pipeline ruptured in 2015, allowing 142,000 gallons of oil to spill into the ocean near Gaviota — began this Thursday in the courtroom of Judge James Herman. Opening arguments remain weeks away, [ More... ]

By |2020-09-02T10:19:10-07:00April 12th, 2018|Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|0 Comments
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Santa Barbara News-Press: Fisher class certified in Plains All American lawsuit

A judge certified one of four groups in a federal class-action lawsuit stemming from the Plains All American oil spill in 2015. U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez last week certified the "fisher and fish industry" subclass, but denied certification for the property owner, oil industry and tourism industry subclasses. In ruling that "fishers and [ More... ]

By |2018-02-13T16:19:59-08:00March 10th, 2017|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|0 Comments
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KEYT-TV: Fisherman can move forward against Plains All American

Here's a news report by KEYT-TV about a United States District Court judge's ruling that a class action brought by fishermen affected by the Plains All American Santa Barbara oil spill can move forward. The interview, with Cappello & Noël law partner Leila Noël, appeared March 6, 2017. KEYT-TV, March 6, 2017 - this link [ More... ]

By |2020-08-18T14:27:02-07:00March 7th, 2017|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|0 Comments
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