Criminal,
Environmental & Energy
Apr. 26, 2019
Pipeline fined $3.35M, instead of $1.25B requested, judge also denies prosecution demand for probation
A superior court judge ordered an oil pipeline company Thursday to pay a fine of $3.25 million, a tiny fraction of the $1.25 billion the prosecution had requested for criminal negligence in handling an alleged 142,000 gallon spill off the coast. The judge also denied the prosecution's demand to put the company on probation.
SANTA BARBARA -- A superior court judge ordered an oil pipeline company Thursday to pay a fine of a fraction of what prosecutors sought for criminal negligence in handling an alleged 142,000 gallon spill off the coast and rejected prosecutors' request to place the company on probation because he said no case law allows it.
"I'm not going where no judge has gone before," Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge
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