Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, were recently selected for inclusion in 2020 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 1992, Cappello has been consecutively ranked as one of the “Best Lawyers [ More... ]
Attorney Kenneth J. Melrose has joined the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël, LLP as an associate, according to A. Barry Cappello, managing partner. Melrose will focus his practice on litigation and trial work. While at law firms in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo, he represented property owners, oil and gas companies, real estate developers, [ More... ]
Santa Barbara-based Cappello & Noël LLP, one of the country’s foremost complex commercial litigation law firms, has named attorney David L. Cousineau as a partner. Cousineau joined the firm in 2014. “David is an incredibly insightful lawyer with years of experience, common sense and a keen eye to the winning issues in every case," says Barry Cappello, Cappello & Noël [ More... ]
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Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | April 10, 2019 | 10:01 p.m. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs leader has withdrawn a decision to take 1,400 acres into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, saying more environmental analysis is needed.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... ]
Two former clients of attorney Michael Avenatti filed a lawsuit yesterday against him, his law firms, and lawyers associated with him that alleges professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty over the mishandling of a settlement, misuse of settlement funds, and conflicts of interest. (William Parrish, Timothy Fitzgibbons vs. Michael Avenatti, Eagan Avenatti, LLP, Avenatti & Associates, et al., Santa [ More... ]
On February 13, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson found that the 2017 decision to take the land known as “Camp 4” into trust for the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians (the Band”) was unlawful. Crawford-Hall et al. v. United States of America et al., 2:17-cv-01616-SVW-AFM (U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal.) Camp 4 was purchased by the Band [ 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... ]
By Alys Martinez, Oct 23, 2018 KEYT-TV The parents of a 4-year-old boy pricked by a discarded hypodermic needle at a Santa Barbara park are demanding action from city leaders. It happened on Sept. 23, 2018, at Plaza de Vera Cruz, when Hayes Parrish found a used needle on the play structure. He pricked his hand and was bleeding. Since [ More... ]
Suit claims that superintendent, several school board members made false charges against Behrens, and that he has been made a 'scapegoat' By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | May 22, 2018 | 8:58 p.m. Ousted San Marcos High School principal Ed Behrens has filed a lawsuit against the Santa Barbara Unified School District, alleging a violation of his constitutional rights, [ More... ]
