Judge upholds injunction against Sable Offshore
A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge on April 17 refused to end an injunction preventing Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Central Coast pipeline without required approvals. Judge Donna Geck’s ruling comes a month after Houston-based Sable restarted oil production at its Santa Ynez Unit in federal waters off Santa Barbara County’s coast at Read More →
CSUCI professor accused of assaulting a federal officer acquitted
Jonathan Caravello, a CSU Channel Islands lecturer facing charges of assaulting federal officers, was acquitted by a Los Angeles jury on April 9. The jury returned the verdict in a matter of hours at the end of a trial that lasted two days, according to reporting by LAist and Huffington Post. Caravello, 38, was among Read More →
Ventura County to pay $3 million to settle sexual harassment suit against former CEO
Ventura County will pay $3 million to a former employee who sued her boss, then-county CEO Mike Powers, for alleged sexual and racial harassment and discrimination from 2019 to 2021. A notice of a conditional settlement of the lawsuit between the county and the plaintiff was filed in Ventura County Superior Court Feb. 24. But Read More →
Top women 2026: Leila Noël
Meaningful impacts at the heart of her law practice Leila Noël, name partner at business litigation law firm Cappello & Noël, has certainly had her share of accolades during her 40-year career at the Santa Barbara-based organization. She was named one of the “Top 75 Women Litigators” in California for 2011 and one of the Read More →
Trump administration directs Sable to start oil production off SB coast
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on March 13 directed Houston-based Sable Offshore Corp. to restart oil production at its Santa Ynez Unit in federal waters off Santa Barbara County’s coast. Wright said in a press release that he was taking the hotly contested action “to address supply disruption risks caused by California policies that have Read More →
Former Ventura County CEO settles sexual harassment lawsuit
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Former Ventura County CEO settles sexual harassment lawsuit
Ventura County and its former CEO, Mike Powers, have agreed to a settlement with a former employee who sued him for alleged sexual and racial harassment and discrimination from 2019 to 2021. A notice of a conditional settlement was filed in Ventura County Superior Court Feb. 24. Terms of the settlement are not disclosed in Read More →
