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... ]
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... ]
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, Case Number 2:16-cv-03157-PSG-JEM, December 17, [ More... ]
The following is being released by the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Keller Rohrback LLP, Cappello & Noël LLP, and Audet & Partners LLP about the lawsuit Andrews v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., No. 2:15-cv-04113. A class action lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. ("Plains Pipeline") has been certified as a class action for another [ More... ]
A U.S. District Court judge certified a real property class in a case against Houston, Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline arising out of the May 2015 oil spill that discharged hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean and onto beaches along the California coast. Class members are owners and lessees of residential beachfront properties and residential [ More... ]
A U.S. District Court judge certified a class of oil workers and businesses contracted to provide services, supplies or personnel to seven offshore oil platforms and three onshore processing facilities impacted by Plains All American Pipeline's May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. (Keith Andrews, et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., [ More... ]
A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday against Southern California Edison alleging the company knowingly and continually violated safety procedures, which lead to the devastating Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslides. The named plaintiffs are individuals and small businesses who suffered property damage and lost income because of the Thomas Fire.
When will America learn that offshore oil drilling in the waters off our coast is a disaster certain to happen again? It seemed our nation was coming to its senses about the pristine nature of our coastal waters; just as the world was beginning to reduce its dependence on oil; we take two giant steps back.
The criminal case against Plains All-American Pipeline regarding the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill will next be in court in November for a trial call date, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. A county Grand Jury indicted the company on 46 criminal counts one year after the May 19, 2015, spill, in which a 24-inch Plains crude oil [ More... ]
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 those that purchased fish from [ More... ]
