mandatory injunction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 389 U.S. 64 - International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n · 1967Most cited · 947 citing opinions
We have previously employed the term 'mandatory injunction' to describe an order compelling parties to abide by an agreement to arbitrate
How often courts cite the cases defining “mandatory injunction”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “mandatory injunction” — 1,127 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1925–1967
- ORIGINAL
A mandatory injunction, like a mandamus, is an extraordinary remedial process, which is granted, not as a matter of right, but in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion. It issues to remedy a wrong, not to promote one.