LAW 334 - Complex Litigation: Injunctions.

Significant and controversial in civil rights, environmental and employment litigation, the injunction has distinctive attributes which this course examines. The topics include the irreparable injury rule, balancing the hardships, the prior restraint rule, and the collateral bar rule. Injunction procedure has several specialized features: the temporary restraining order, the preliminary injunction, the lack of a jury trial, and the motion to modify or dissolve. Judges wield contempt to enforce injunctions against recalcitrant defendants; the distinctions between criminal and civil contempt; the characteristics of compensatory contempt, coercive contempt, and criminal contempt; and who must obey an injunction will also be examined. Three hours. Rendleman