Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Santa Barbara Surgery Center (SBSC) claiming wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation and age discrimination have retracted these and all other claims in full. Their lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice for lack of evidence on January 10, 2019. (Laura Dahlin, Annette Eddy v. Santa Barbara Surgery Center, Case No. 17CV05251, Santa Barbara County Superior Court, [ More... ]
An amended class action and individual lawsuits were filed against Plains All American Pipeline by Santa Barbara County property owners who have easement contracts with Plains and whose properties were impacted during the 2015 Refugio oil spill. (Grey Fox, LLC et. al v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et. al, U.S. District Court, Central District, Case Number 2:16-cv-03157-PSG-JEM, December 17, [ More... ]
The following is being released by the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Keller Rohrback LLP, Cappello & Noël LLP, and Audet & Partners LLP about the lawsuit Andrews v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., No. 2:15-cv-04113. A class action lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. ("Plains Pipeline") has been certified as a class action for another [ More... ]
Certainly not Andy Caldwell, the so-called whose recent outburst proves he is simply a shill for Big Oil. His opinion piece (Voices, Sept. 12) makes clear that he couldn't care less about the wildlife destroyed in the Plains All-American Pipeline spill at Refugio Beach, much less the more than 500 oil workers who lost their jobs when the oil platforms [ More... ]
A U.S. District Court judge certified a real property class in a case against Houston, Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline arising out of the May 2015 oil spill that discharged hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean and onto beaches along the California coast. Class members are owners and lessees of residential beachfront properties and residential [ More... ]
A family whose home was destroyed by the January 9, 2018 Montecito mudslides filed a lawsuit today against Southern California Edison (SCE). The lawsuit alleges the company knowingly and continually violated safety procedures, which lead to the Thomas Fire and the resulting mudslides that tore through their home (William Levy et. al vs. Southern California Edison, Edison International, Santa Barbara [ More... ]
A. Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been selected to the 2018 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of lawyers receive this honor. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, complex business litigation, [ More... ]
A. Barry Cappello, managing partner of the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, is included in the 2017 Marquis Who’s Who for excellence in business litigation. Factors for selection include position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence are all taken into account. Cappello’s firm is regarded as one of the top complex
The criminal case against Plains All-American Pipeline regarding the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill will next be in court in November for a trial call date, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. A county Grand Jury indicted the company on 46 criminal counts one year after the May 19, 2015, spill, in which a 24-inch Plains crude oil [ More... ]
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... ]
