OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors related to the granting of preliminary court orders [injunctions] in drug litigations. METHODS A retrospective descriptive study of drug lawsuits in the State of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil, was conducted from October 1999 to 2009. The database consists of 6,112 lawsuits, out of which 6,044 had motions for injunctions and 5,167 included the requisiti...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 127 I. THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 129 II. THE DIFFICULTY WITH BROAD FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 133 CONCLUSION.............

We analyze the effect of preliminary injunctions in patent cases, using a simple probabilistic model of a legal challenge to a patent’s validity. We show that using current U. S. damages rules, preliminary injunctions are likely to lead to inefficient innovations, non-novel patents, and extensive litigation, since both the patent holder and the allegedly infringing firm can benefit from a preli...

the court orders, inter alia, the provisional injunctions, are normally aimed to impose some specific result on the parties to a proceeding. provisional measures including interim injunctions are somehow connected to the general standards of fair proceeding. the question might be how a proceeding could be assessed as being fair while an interim injunction is being issued against one of the part...

Injunctions are a contentious issue between the judiciary and press. What press wishes to publish has sometimes been restricted by through issuing of injunctions. Nonethel...