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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 |2024-09-27T05:29:28-07:00May 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 |2024-09-27T05:16:31-07:00April 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 |2024-09-27T05:16:31-07:00January 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 |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00December 3rd, 2021|Class Actions, 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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Barry Cappello & Leila Noël Included in 2022 Best Lawyers in America

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, were selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Both attorneys were recognized for their legal skills in mass tort litigation and plaintiff class action representation. Since 1989, Cappello has been consecutively ranked as one of the “Best Lawyers [ More... ]

By |2021-08-20T07:56:45-07:00August 20th, 2021|Firm News, News|
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Cappello & Noël Adds New Attorney

Richard Lloyd is now an associate attorney at the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. Lloyd has worked at the firm since 2015, beginning as a paralegal. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2003 and the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law in 2020 where he was class valedictorian. He passed the California State [ More... ]

By |2022-04-26T13:29:08-07:00July 7th, 2021|Firm News, News|
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A. Barry Cappello and Leila Noël Selected to 2021 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 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of lawyers receive this honor. Cappello has been named to the Super Lawyer list every year since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, complex business [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:16:31-07:00January 25th, 2021|Firm News, News|
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