Rule 1.1511.Violation as contempt

Rule 1.1511 supplies the enforcement teeth behind every injunction issued under this division. Violating any provision of a temporary or permanent injunction is contempt, and the rule directs that it be punished accordingly. The rule does not distinguish between large and small violations, or between temporary and permanent injunctions — both carry the same contempt exposure for noncompliance.

This is what gives an injunction its practical force. A court order that a party can ignore without consequence is not much of a remedy; Rule 1.1511 closes that gap by treating disobedience as contempt of court, with the punishment that follows from a contempt finding rather than some lesser or separate penalty specific to injunctions.

Read alongside Rule 1.1509's guaranteed hearing to dissolve, vacate, or modify an injunction issued without notice, the structure of this division becomes clear: a party who thinks an injunction was wrongly granted has a fast route to challenge it, but until that challenge succeeds, violating the injunction carries real consequences.