Art. 3605.Content and Scope of Injunction Or Restraining Order

Louisiana's three injunction tiers, temporary, preliminary, and permanent, all share the same requirement once one of them issues: the order has to stand on its own. Article 3605 forbids an order that restrains conduct only by pointing back to the petition or some other document; the acts sought to be restrained have to be described in reasonable detail in the order itself.

That specificity requirement protects the restrained party's ability to know exactly what conduct is prohibited without cross-referencing pleadings, and it protects the order's enforceability, since Article 3611's contempt remedy for disobedience only works if the order clearly states what obedience requires.

Article 3605 also defines who the order binds and from when. It reaches the restrained parties themselves along with their officers, agents, employees, and counsel, and anyone else acting in active concert or participation with them. The obligation to comply attaches once any of them receive actual knowledge of the order, whether through personal service or some other means, so a person who learns of the order informally cannot disregard it on the ground that they were not formally served.