action for injunction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 343 U.S. 326 - United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · 1952Most cited · 1,513 citing opinions
The sole function of an action for injunction is to forestall future violations. It is so unrelated to punishment or reparations for those past that its pendency or decision does not prevent concurrent or later remedy for past violations by indictment or action for damages by those injured. All it takes to make the cause of action for relief by injunction is a real threat of future violation or a contemporary violation of a nature likely to continue or recur.
How often courts cite the case defining “action for injunction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “action for injunction” — 1,504 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.