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

50 Years Later: Why Are We Still Fighting This Battle?

Fifty years ago, an oil drilling company failed to put proper safety measures in place causing one of its oil platforms to rupture off the Santa Barbara coast. The result was 3 million gallons of crude oil spewing into 800 miles of the Pacific Ocean and onto 35 miles of Santa Barbara beaches. Thousands of mammals, fish and birds were [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:33-07:00March 11th, 2019|Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Easement Class Action Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline

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... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:35-07:00December 21st, 2018|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Oil Industry Workers & Businesses Could Be Part of Class Action Lawsuit

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 |2024-09-27T05:29:31-07:00November 5th, 2018|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Who protects the wildlife and workers who lost their jobs?

Certainly not Andy Caldwell, the so-called whose recent outburst proves he is simply a shill for Big Oil. His opinion piece (Voices, Sept. 12) makes clear that he couldn't care less about the wildlife destroyed in the Plains All-American Pipeline spill at Refugio Beach, much less the more than 500 oil workers who lost their jobs when the oil platforms [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:36-07:00September 17th, 2018|Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Judge Certifies Real Property Class in Oil Spill Litigation

A U.S. District Court judge certified a real property class in a case against Houston, Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline arising out of the May 2015 oil spill that discharged hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean and onto beaches along the California coast. Class members are owners and lessees of residential beachfront properties and residential [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:31-07:00April 19th, 2018|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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SB Independent: Plains All American Trial Begins

Thursday, April 12, 2018, Santa Barbara Independent,  By Nick Welsh The criminal trial against Plains All American Pipeline — the Texas-based company whose pipeline ruptured in 2015, allowing 142,000 gallons of oil to spill into the ocean near Gaviota — began this Thursday in the courtroom of Judge James Herman. Opening arguments remain weeks away, and attorneys for both sides [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00April 12th, 2018|Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Oil Industry Class Certified in Santa Barbara Oil Spill

A U.S. District Court judge certified a class of oil workers and businesses contracted to provide services, supplies or personnel to seven offshore oil platforms and three onshore processing facilities impacted by Plains All American Pipeline's May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. (Keith Andrews, et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:29-07:00February 12th, 2018|Class Actions, Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Shift in offshore drilling policy is a step back

When will America learn that offshore oil drilling in the waters off our coast is a disaster certain to happen again? It seemed our nation was coming to its senses about the pristine nature of our coastal waters; just as the world was beginning to reduce its dependence on oil; we take two giant steps back.

By |2024-09-27T05:29:36-07:00January 19th, 2018|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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“The Ocean Is Boiling” : The Complete Oral History of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

For an excellent account of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, read the Pacific Standard's "The Ocean is Boiling: The Complete Oral History of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill."  Pacific Standard reporters interviewed those who saw the destruction caused by the spill and who vowed not to rest until those responsible were held accountable. The spill, many say, started [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:29-07:00April 19th, 2017|News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Hearing Date Set in Refugio Oil Spill Criminal Case, Class Action Advances

The criminal case against Plains All-American Pipeline regarding the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill will next be in court in November for a trial call date, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. A county Grand Jury indicted the company on 46 criminal counts one year after the May 19, 2015, spill, in which a 24-inch Plains crude oil [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:31-07:00April 11th, 2017|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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