negative order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 303 U.S. 226 - United States v. Griffin · 1938Most cited · 270 citing opinions
a refusal to change the existing status, as distinguished from an 'affirmative' order; jurisdiction under the Urgent Deficiencies Act extends only to affirmative orders—those of a kind which there was also jurisdiction to enforce
How often courts cite the cases defining “negative order”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “negative order” — 480 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 · 1931–1938
- ORIGINAL
A negative order which denies relief without more compels nothing requiring enforcement, and contemplates no action susceptible of being stayed by an injunction or affected by a decree setting aside, annulling, or suspending the order.