Nature of Proceedings: Case Management Conference; Demurrer TENTATIVE RULING: The court requests further briefing as set forth herein. Defendants shall file and serve their supplemental brief on or before April 9, 2021. Plaintiffs shall file and serve their response supplemental brief on or before April 16, 2021. Defendants may file and serve a reply supplemental brief on or before April 23, 2021. The hearing on this matter is continued to April 30, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Background: As alleged in plaintiffs’ first amended complaint (FAC): Defendants Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., and Plains Pipeline, L.P. (collectively, Plains) own and operate a 10-mile long, 24-inch wide oil pipeline known as Line 901. (FAC, ¶¶ 2, 140.) Line 901, with its connecting Line 903 (together, the Pipeline), constitute the only permissible route to transport crude oil produced offshore in Santa Barbara. (FAC, ¶¶ 112, 139.) On the morning of May 19, 2015, Line 901 ruptured on private property near Refugio S