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Santa Barbara School District And Others Sued Over Alleged Negligence in Protecting Students From Sexual Predators

A lawsuit filed September 20 against the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Santa Barbara Charter School and Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido alleges negligence in protecting minor students from sexual predators. The legal action stems from previous filings claiming repeated sexual misconduct by coaches and teachers, and the recent discovery that Charter School teacher Steven Schapansky secretly [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:04-08:00September 23rd, 2024|News|
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PCBT: $70M Refugio oil spill deal gets tentative OK

Nine years after the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill along the Santa Barbara coastline, a federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $70 million class action settlement to nearly 90 property owners. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez issued his ruling May 1. It was announced May 9. If finalized in September, the settlement will be paid by Houston-based Sable [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:30-07:00May 17th, 2024|Firm News, News|
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$70 Million Class Action Settlement Reached For Property Owners Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

On May 1, 2024, nine years after a pipeline ruptured along the Santa Barbara coastline spilling oil onto private property, Refugio State Beach and into the Pacific Ocean, U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez granted preliminary approval of a $70 million class action settlement to property owners to resolve all outstanding class claims (Grey Fox, LLC et. al v. Plains [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:28-07:00May 3rd, 2024|Class Actions, Firm News|
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Cappello Foundation Donates $100,000 To UCLA School of Law’s Cappello Trial Advocacy Scholarship Fund

When Barry Cappello, managing partner at Santa Barbara’s Cappello & Noël LLP, was attending law school in the 1960s, there were no trial advocacy programs at major law schools. Back then, law schools didn’t teach students how to try cases. They had to learn once they became a lawyer. Cappello and his foundation have donated over $3 million to his [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:45:05-08:00December 13th, 2023|News|
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Barry Cappello and Leila Noël Included in 2024 Best Lawyers in America, Firm Included in 2024 Best Law Firms in America

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, were selected for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The firm was recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Law Firms in America. Both attorneys were recognized for their legal skills in mass tort litigation and plaintiff class [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:15-08:00September 14th, 2023|Firm News|
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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 |2025-11-24T14:31:14-08:00April 29th, 2023|News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Edison’s Thomas Fire demurrers sustained, plaintiffs can amend/Daily Journal

Edison demurred to the class action claims on the grounds that a utility cannot be held liable to third parties for purely economic loss resulting from a public disaster, according to a 2019 ruling in Southern California Gas Leak Cases. Highberger on Tuesday overruled the demurrer as to claims of inverse condemnation, private nuisance and trespass, while sustaining with leave [ More... ]

By |2023-03-23T09:55:33-07:00March 23rd, 2023|Class Actions, Firm News, News, Thomas Fire & Montecito Mudslides Class Actions|
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Barry Cappello Named a Member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100

Barry Cappello was once again named a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100. The association is invitation-only and is comprised of an elite group of civil plaintiff and criminal defense trial lawyers from each state. Each member goes through a third-party research and review process. According to the National Trial Lawyers, members are those “who demonstrate superior qualifications [ More... ]

By |2025-06-17T13:44:54-07:00March 9th, 2023|Firm News, News|
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SB Independent: Hollister Ranch Lawsuit Lives On to Fight Another Day

Eight attorneys were gathered, in person and virtually, in Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne’s courtroom on Monday morning, in the hope of influencing her ruling that saved a Hollister Ranch lawsuit from an early death. Three were from the state Attorney General’s Office, and one was Barry Cappello, arguably the litigator’s litigator in Santa Barbara. By Jean Yamamura Mon [ More... ]

By |2022-12-06T10:32:27-08:00December 6th, 2022|Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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Judge Approves $230 Million Settlement for Fishing Industry Members And Shoreline Residents Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

On September 20, Federal District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted final approval of a combined $230 million class action settlement arising out of Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Refugio Oil Spill on the Santa Barbara coast. The court’s approval clears the way for the settlement administrator to begin processing and paying claims submitted by affected fishers and property owners. [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:41-08:00September 22nd, 2022|Class Actions, Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News, Toxic Tort|
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