11-106.Injunctive relief on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Section 11-106 removes the calendar as an obstacle to urgent injunctive relief. Ordinarily one might assume court business waits for a business day, but this section says otherwise for injunctions. When an application for injunctive relief is made on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or any day courts are not in session, and the complaint is accompanied by an affidavit from the plaintiff or the plaintiff's agent or attorney, the court can act immediately if that affidavit states -- and the bases for stating -- that the benefit of injunctive relief will be lost or endangered, or irremediable damage will occur, unless relief is granted right away.

The court still has to find, from that affidavit, that those consequences are real and that the plaintiff is otherwise entitled to relief under the law; the day of the week does not lower the substantive bar. What changes is procedural: once the court grants relief, it is lawful for the clerk to certify the order and for the sheriff or coroner to serve it on a non-court day exactly as on any other day. Affidavits, bonds, and other proceedings taken on that day carry the same force and effect as if taken on a regular business day.