In many cases, a contract will include an injunctive relief clause stating that one or both parties are entitled to relief to prevent them from suffering harm due to a breach of contract.
A temporary restraining order (TRO) is a common preliminary injunctive relief example. For instance, a court order placing the sale of a company on hold while a breach of fiduciary duty or a shareholder derivative lawsuit is ongoing.
What Is an Injunction and Why Is it Used? Injunction relief—also known as injunctive relief or simply as an injunction—is a court order that prohibits an organization or an individual from taking a specific action. Conversely, an injunction may also require an entity to take a certain action.
The party asking for an injunctive relief must prove three things: 1) that there is a cause of action against the defendant; 2) that the party seeking the injunction has a right to the property in question; and 3) that the objects in question are in danger of “probable, imminent, and irreparable injury.” In the Strube ...
Injunctions can offer relief where monetary compensation does not suffice or is not appropriate. For example, in the case of bankruptcy, it is more appropriate to ask debt collectors to halt their collection efforts than to request financial rewards.
Injunctions may be granted to restrain a wide range of acts: a breach of contract, such as a contract against engaging in a competing business; the commission of a tort (e.g., a nuisance); an injury to property (e.g., the of a wall on the plaintiff's land); wrongful expulsion (e.g., from a club or a trade ...
To warrant preliminary injunctive relief, the moving party must show (1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, (2) that it would suffer irrepa- rable injury if the injunction were not granted, (3) that an injunction would not substantially injure other interested parties, and (4) that the public interest ...
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of relief available through an injunction: prohibitory and mandatory.
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7 (2008), is applicable to all other litigants seeking preliminary injunctions, and requires that a party seeking a preliminary injunction must establish: (1) it is likely to succeed on the merits, (2) it is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of ...
 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    