Posts, articles and news updates related to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill/Plains All American Pipeline Class Action lawsuits.

$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 |2024-11-05T10:43:53-08:00November 4th, 2024|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions, Uncategorized|
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‘Reality’ Intrudes into Safety Valves Proposal for Refugio Pipeline – SB Independent

If not for the seriousness of the matter at hand — the eventual restarting of Line 901, the pipeline that caused the Refugio Oil Spill in 2015 — the arguments this morning at the Planning Commission over installing 16 automated safety valves could have simply been appreciated for the artful rhetoric rolled out by the participating attorneys. Ultimately, what seemed [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00April 29th, 2023|News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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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 |2024-09-27T05:29:29-07:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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$230 Million 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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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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Oil Workers File Lawsuits Against Plains All American Pipeline

Lawsuits were filed May 18, 2020 in Santa Barbara Superior Court against Plains All American Pipeline by oil workers and service companies supporting offshore oil rigs. The plaintiffs lost their livelihoods when the May 2015 oil spill shut down oil drilling offshore Santa Barbara. Peter Trejo et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., SB Superior Court, May 18, 2020, [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00May 20th, 2020|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Judge Allows Property Owner Claims to Proceed

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... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:35-07:00March 26th, 2020|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Judge Certifies Property Owners’ Easement Class Action Against Plains

On January 28, 2020, United States District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez certified a class action lawsuit 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 [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:35-07:00January 31st, 2020|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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