Munger Tolles fights subclass certification piecemeal for pipeline company

The battle over certification for subclasses in litigation over the 2015 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara continues.

U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez

The battle over certification of subclasses in the massive litigation over the 2015 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara continues into the new year.

After Plains All American Pipeline LP was found criminally negligent in 2019 by a state court jury over one of the largest oil spills in California history, three subclasses of fishermen, property owners and oil workers -- led by four law firms under one federal class action -- ar...

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