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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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Class Action Lawsuit Filed By Volkswagen Owners in Wake of Company Admitting to Deceiving Public Over Pollutant Emissions

A class action lawsuit was filed against Volkswagen Group of America by six California Volkswagen diesel owners who say they now face loss of vehicle value, decreased resale opportunities and degradation of vehicle performance after Volkswagen recently admitted that since 2009 it circumvented emission test procedures to produce misleading pollution test results. (Peter Park, et al vs. Volkswagen Group of [ More... ]

By |2020-08-28T08:11:07-07:00September 21st, 2015|Class Actions, Firm News, News|
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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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