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Class Action Filed By Property Owners Where Plains Pipeline Located

Santa Barbara, Calif. (May 9, 2016)—Property owners that have easement agreements allowing Plains All American to run its oil pipelines on their property have filed a class action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Plains to repair and improve its corroded pipelines in Santa Barbara County so they operate within the parameters [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:36-07:00May 10th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, News|
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Leila Noël Named One of the “Top 50 Women in Business” by Pacific Coast Business Times

Firm partner Leila Noël was named one of 2016’s “Top 50 Women in Business” by the Pacific Coast Business Times. The honor recognizes the outstanding female business leaders in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Previously, she was named one of 2011’s “Top 75 Women Litigators” in California and one of the “Top 100 Women Lawyers” in California [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:00:26-07:00April 3rd, 2016|Firm News, News|
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Santa Barbara News-Press: Judge orders plain truth, not Plains truth

Firm at center of Refugio spill must change its message to victims By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR March 8, 2016 Roughnecks, property owners, commercial fishermen and others who claim damages stemming from the Refugio oil spill made some headway in their federal class-action suit, convincing a judge in Los Angeles that portions of their case should move forward. At [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:32-07:00March 24th, 2016|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Judge Invalidates Plains All American Pipeline’s Settlement Releases and Orders Plains to Stop Its Misleading Communications with Oil Spill Victims

On March 3, 2016, a U.S. District Court judge invalidated the settlement releases that Plains All American Pipeline required claimants to sign during its claims process.  The court found that Plains was attempting “to steer those victims towards unwittingly waiving their rights to full recovery” available to them through the class action filed after the company’s May 19, 2015 oil [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:33-07:00March 4th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Pacific Coast Business Times: Judge Denies Plains’ Request to Delay Oil Spill Lawsuit

By Alex Kacik /   Thursday, February 25th, 2016 A U.S. district judge denied Plains All American Pipeline’s request to put a six-month hold on the class-action lawsuit stemming from the Refugio oil spill. Judge Philip Gutierrez issued an order on Feb. 25 that denied Plains’ motion because Plains did not make a clear case on how a delay, or [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:27:07-07:00February 26th, 2016|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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CONGRATULATIONS LEILA

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Leila Noël as an attorney with the firm. She started as a 2-year associate and quickly advanced in her career by successfully helping countless individuals and small businesses with their litigation matters. Eventually, she became a name partner. In addition, the Daily Journal selected her as one of the Top 75 Women Litigation [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:08:13-07:00February 17th, 2016|Firm News, News|
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Noozhawk: Santa Ynez Valley Ranch Promises Lawsuit If County Allows Fee-to-Trust for Chumash Property

By Gina Potthoff, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @ginapotthoff | Published on 02.16.2016 6:46 p.m. Santa Barbara County’s legal counsel doesn’t have a response for a local attorney’s implied intent to file a lawsuit if officials allow the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians to annex land without going through certain planning channels. Well-known Santa Barbara attorney Barry Cappello promised county [ More... ]

By |2022-08-31T20:25:01-07:00February 17th, 2016|Firm News, News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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Barry Cappello Again Listed on Southern California Super Lawyers List

For the 10th consecutive year, Barry Cappello, managing partner of Cappello & Noël, has been selected to the Southern California Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in southern California are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:08:37-07:00February 4th, 2016|Firm News, News|
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Barry Cappello and Leila Noël Named to the Pacific Coast Business Times’ “Who’s Who in Professional Services”

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners at Cappello & Noël LLP, were selected to the “Who’s Who in Professional Services” 2015 edition of the Pacific Coast Business Times. The annual honor spotlights outstanding attorneys and accountants in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Cappello and Noël were two of only 79 lawyers selected to be in the Who’s [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:08:44-07:00October 28th, 2015|Firm News, News|
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Ventura County Star: Volkswagen test site in Oxnard a focus of class-action suit over emissions cheating

Gretchen Wenner Sep 30, 2015 OXNARD, Calif. - A Volkswagen emissions compliance laboratory in Oxnard is a focus of at least one class-action lawsuit filed in the wake of the carmaker’s emissions cheating scandal. “Our view is that the Oxnard test center is at the heart of this,” said Leila Noël of Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:08:54-07:00September 30th, 2015|Class Actions, News|
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