$70 Million Settlement Now Final For Central Coast Property Owners in Oil Pipeline Spill Easement Class Action Against Sable Offshore Corp. And Subsidiary

A $70 million settlement for private property owners with easements for the oil pipeline formerly owned by Plains All American is now final. The appeal period for the class action settlement expired on October 17, 2024, and settlement payments will be made in the first half of November.  The settlement resolves all class claims brought by the property owners. (Grey [ More... ]

By |2025-05-29T10:55:59-07:00November 4th, 2024|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions, Uncategorized|
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$19 Million Jury Award for Passport 420 in Insurance Bad Faith Case Against Starr Insurance related to Jet Seizure and Michael Avenatti Misconduct

A Santa Barbara County jury found that Starr Indemnity & Liability Company acted in bad faith and with malice and oppression when it refused to pay an insurance claim submitted by Passport 420, LLC, its policyholder.  (Passport 420 LLC et al vs Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. et al, Santa Barbara Superior Court, 19CV03596). Passport’s jet was seized in April [ More... ]

By |2025-11-21T14:20:21-08:00October 10th, 2024|Complex Business Litigation, Firm News|
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Judge Rules Property Owners Adjacent To Montecito Country Club Must Remove Landscaping They Placed in Easement And Restore Property To Previous Condition

A Santa Barbara Superior Court judge ruled July 30 that property owners adjacent to Montecito Country Club must pay for the costs of removing landscaping they installed without permission on an easement owned by the country club and restore the property to its previous condition. (Montecito Country Club, LLC vs. Kevin Root, et. al., Case No.: 21CV02227, July 30, 2024) [ More... ]

By |2025-05-29T11:01:19-07:00September 26th, 2024|News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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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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$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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Barry Cappello and Leila Noël Included in 2023 Best Lawyers in America©

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, were selected for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Both attorneys were recognized for their legal skills in mass tort litigation and plaintiff class action representation. Since 1989, Cappello has been consecutively included in the rankings. This is the [ More... ]

By |2025-01-07T13:42:47-08:00August 24th, 2022|Firm News, News|
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Attorney G. Michael Brelje Joins Santa Barbara’s Cappello & Noël

G. Michael Brelje, a civil litigation trial attorney who specializes in complex business, real estate and construction business litigation, has joined the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. Brelje’s practice includes all forms of civil procedure, discovery and motion practice, as well as trial and appellate appearances. Before joining Cappello & Noël, Brelje was a senior attorney at [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:20:57-07:00August 3rd, 2022|Firm News, News|
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Plains All American Pipeline Agrees to Pay $230 Million to Fishing Industry, Shoreline Residents – SB Noozhawk

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... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:34-07:00May 16th, 2022|Class Actions, Environmental Law, Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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$230 Million Class Action Settlement Reached For Fishing Industry Members And Shoreline Residents Damaged By Plains All American Pipeline’s 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 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... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:28-07:00May 14th, 2022|Class Actions, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Montecito Homeowners Take Legal Action Against County Over Parking for Hot Springs Trail

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... ]

By |2022-04-26T13:26:10-07:00April 25th, 2022|Firm News, Government Issues, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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