Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
May 26, 2020
Fishers’ strict liability claims to remain in oil spill case
A pipeline company criminally convicted for the 2015 Refugio oil spill in Santa Barbara County lost all its motions for decertification and summary judgment in the case involving a subclass of fishers who claim economic losses as marine species dramatically declined.
Plains All American Pipeline LP lost nearly all its motions to throw out claims filed by a class of fishers who claim they incurred income losses following a 2015 oil spill across 100 miles of Santa Barbara County coastline that resulted in species declination.
U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District of California issued his ruling Thursday, ...
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