Rule 1.1502.Temporary; when allowed

Rule 1.1502 lists the three circumstances where a temporary injunction — the earlier-stage, provisional relief rule 1.1501 describes — may be allowed. The first covers the plaintiff's own petition: when the petition, supported by affidavit, shows the plaintiff is entitled to relief that includes restraining the commission or continuance of some act which would greatly or irreparably injure the plaintiff, a temporary injunction can issue to prevent that harm while the case proceeds.

The second circumstance looks at conduct that emerges during the litigation itself, rather than at the outset. If it appears that a party is doing, procuring, or suffering to be done, or threatens or is about to do, an act that violates the other party's rights respecting the subject of the action and tends to make the eventual judgment ineffectual, a temporary injunction can stop that conduct before it undermines whatever the case ultimately decides. The third circumstance is a catch-all: any case specially authorized by statute, where a specific statutory provision independently permits a temporary injunction outside these two general grounds.