On June 22, 2022, an Orange County civil jury found in favor of William Parrish and E. Timothy Fitzgibbons, and against Stoll, Nussbaum & Polakov, their former lawyers who had sued them for claimed attorney fees in a prior case. The jury returned a verdict in two hours, ruling against the Stoll law firm 12-0 on every claim. The jury [ More... ]
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... ]
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... ]
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... ]
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... ]
Four Montecito homeowners have won a temporary injunction to block Santa Barbara County from moving forward on a plan to install parking spaces along East Mountain Drive near the Hot Springs Trailhead.Superior Court Judge Donna Geck concluded that the county's parking plan cannot move forward until it is determined whether an environmental review is needed.The county wants to add parking spaces along [ More... ]
Four Montecito property owners are taking legal action against Santa Barbara County over the government's attempt to create up to 62 parking spaces for access to the Hot Springs Trail on East Mountain Drive. A hearing for a preliminary injunction against the county is set for May 6. Christopher Anderson, Ross Bagdasarian, Peter Barker and James Moreley are looking to stop the [ More... ]
An Orange County Superior Court judge has issued a writ commanding a federal prison warden to produce inmate Michael Avenatti for in-person testimony this week at the West Justice Center in Westminster, California, recently renamed the Stephen K. Tamura Justice Center. Avenatti has said he'll only appear via video and will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but [ More... ]
Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been selected to the 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of attorneys are named to the list each year. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, [ More... ]
Rap star Cardi B and her tattooed nemesis Kevin Michael Brophy took another shot at settling a $5 million lawsuit over claims she stole his back tattoo yesterday (December 1st). A settlement conference was held via Zoom between their lawyers, with Magistrate Judge Rosenbluth, overseeing the settlement talks. Brophy’s lawyer A. Barry Cappello and Lawrence J. Conlan took on Cardi’s [ More... ]
