Biodiversity Conservation Alliance v. Stem

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that once a judgment has been obtained, a party who “turn[s] back to its old ways ... might well be subject to contempt proceedings”
• reasoning plaintiff won only “the right to have the status quo preserved, so that had it prevailed on the merits, its victory would have meaning”
• “[A] party is entitled to attorneys’ fees only if it could obtain a court order to enforce the merits of some portion of the claim it made in its suit.”
• “Unlike the injunction in Sole, the preliminary injunction here was not undone by a final decision on the merits. It is thus in the area explicitly left open by Sole.” (citation omitted)
• “[A] party is entitled to attorneys’ fees [as a prevailing party] only if it could obtain a court order to enforce the merits of some portion of the claim it made in its suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).