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Court Denies Santa Barbara County’s Motion To Dismiss Over Recycling Facility Dispute

After a nine-month review, a United States District Judge has denied Santa Barbara County's motion to dismiss a breach of contract lawsuit over a $140 million waste conversion and management facility, allowing the case against the County to proceed. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani ruled on June 13 that MSB Investors LLC (MSB) can pursue all claims against the County, [ More... ]

By |2025-06-19T10:18:24-07:00June 19th, 2025|Environmental Law, News, Uncategorized|
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$70 Million Settlement Now Final For Central Coast Property Owners in Oil Pipeline Spill Easement Class Action Against Sable Offshore Corp. And Subsidiary

A $70 million settlement for private property owners with easements for the oil pipeline formerly owned by Plains All American is now final. The appeal period for the class action settlement expired on October 17, 2024, and settlement payments will be made in the first half of November.  The settlement resolves all class claims brought by the property owners. (Grey [ More... ]

By |2025-05-29T10:55:59-07:00November 4th, 2024|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions, Uncategorized|
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SB Independent: Hollister Ranch Lawsuit Lives On to Fight Another Day

Eight attorneys were gathered, in person and virtually, in Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne’s courtroom on Monday morning, in the hope of influencing her ruling that saved a Hollister Ranch lawsuit from an early death. Three were from the state Attorney General’s Office, and one was Barry Cappello, arguably the litigator’s litigator in Santa Barbara. By Jean Yamamura Mon [ More... ]

By |2022-12-06T10:32:27-08:00December 6th, 2022|Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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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 |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00May 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 |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00May 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 |2025-01-07T13:42:55-08:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Oceanfront Property Owners File Class Action Lawsuit Against Amplify Energy

A class action lawsuit was filed October 6, 2021 against Houston, Texas-based Amplify Energy arising out of the October 2, 2021 oil pipeline spill that reportedly discharged at least 126,000 gallons of toxic crude oil into the ocean along the Orange County, California coastline. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of beachfront property owners affected by the spill. (Stephen [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00October 8th, 2021|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News|
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U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Official Reverses Camp 4 Trust Decision

By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | April 10, 2019 | 10:01 p.m. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs leader has withdrawn a decision to take 1,400 acres into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, saying more environmental analysis is needed. The March 29 reversal by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney claimed a regional [ More... ]

By |2025-06-17T13:41:21-07:00April 11th, 2019|Environmental Law, Firm News, News|
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