ex parte restraining order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 393 U.S. 175 - Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne · 1968Most cited · 1,143 citing opinions
There is a place in our jurisprudence for ex parte issuance, without notice, of temporary restraining orders of short duration; but there is no place within the area of basic freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment for such orders where no showing is made that it is impossible to serve or to notify the opposing parties and to give them an opportunity to participate.
How often courts cite the case defining “ex parte restraining order”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ex parte restraining order” — 1,134 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.