Rule 1.1503.Endorsing refusal

Rule 1.1503 covers what happens when a court, or a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, turns down a request for a temporary injunction. The judge does not need to write a separate order explaining the decision — the rule requires only that the refusal be endorsed on the petition itself. That endorsement becomes part of the record of the case, showing that the relief was sought and denied.

This matters because Rule 1.1504 requires anyone who later renews the same request, or takes it to a different judge, to disclose that a previous court or justice already refused it. The endorsement on the petition is the paper trail that makes that disclosure enforceable — a party cannot quietly shop the same request from judge to judge without leaving a record of the earlier refusal.

Because the rule speaks of a court, or justice of the supreme court, it covers both the everyday case of a district judge declining to issue a temporary injunction and the less common situation where a request goes directly to a justice of the supreme court. Either way, the same endorsement requirement applies.