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

Santa Barbara News-Press: Fisher class certified in Plains All American lawsuit

A judge certified one of four groups in a federal class-action lawsuit stemming from the Plains All American oil spill in 2015. U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez last week certified the "fisher and fish industry" subclass, but denied certification for the property owner, oil industry and tourism industry subclasses. In ruling that "fishers and those that purchased fish from [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:32-07:00March 10th, 2017|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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KEYT-TV: Fisherman can move forward against Plains All American

Here's a news report by KEYT-TV about a United States District Court judge's ruling that a class action brought by fishermen affected by the Plains All American Santa Barbara oil spill can move forward. The interview, with Cappello & Noël law partner Leila Noël, appeared March 6, 2017. KEYT-TV, March 6, 2017 - this link is no longer available. More [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00March 7th, 2017|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Santa Barbara News-Press: Refugio spill claimants gear up for court

By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR August 25, 2016 Attorneys representing property owners, oil rig workers, commercial fishing-boat operators and others who say they were harmed by the Plains All American Pipeline oil spill at Refugio State Beach will appear before a federal judge in November for a hearing on whether the consolidated cases will proceed as a class-action matter. [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:32-07:00August 26th, 2016|Class Actions, Firm News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Class Action Motion For Certification Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline

A class of plaintiffs injured by the May 19, 2015 Plains oil pipeline rupture and oil spill near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have filed a motion for class certification. (Keith Andrews, et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., Case No. 2:15-CV-04113-PSG-JEM, U.S. District Court, Central District of Calif., August 22, 2016) Plains owns and controls the [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:36-07:00August 25th, 2016|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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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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Santa Barbara Oil Spill Class Action Legal Counsel Agree to Consolidate; Cappello & Noël and A. Barry Cappello Named Lead Trial Counsel, Lieff Cabraser and Keller Rohrback, Co-Lead Counsel

Five law firms representing the six class action cases currently filed against Plains All American Pipeline stemming from the May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have agreed to consolidate their efforts in a September 15, 2015 motion made to the United States District Court in Los Angeles. The five firms, acting as [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:29-07:00September 18th, 2015|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Class Action Filed Against Plains All American Pipeline By Oil Industry Workers Affected By Santa Barbara Oil Spill

A class action lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline was filed September 4 on behalf of oil industry workers who were laid off as a result of the company’s May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. (Richard Lilygren v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:29-07:00September 14th, 2015|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Santa Barbara Independent: Refugio Oil Spill Likely Far Larger Than Projected

Refugio Oil Spill Likely Far Larger Than Projected By Tyler Hayden ( Contact )Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Paul Wellman (file) Refugio Oil Spill (May 19, 2105) New Information Released by Plains All American Shows 40 Percent Jump in Volume Estimates The size and scope of the Refugio Oil Spill may have been far larger than originally reported, according to documents released today [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00August 7th, 2015|Class Actions, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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