Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,417 Stephen Blumenthal and Les Fein v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.

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• noting that arbitration can become a “hollow formality” absent a court’s ability “to preserve the meaningfulness of the arbitration”
• stating that federal policy favors entering an injunction if doing so would permit the parties to arbitrate disputes contemplated by their arbitration agreement
• issuing preliminary injunction before any arbitration “preserve[s] the status quo” if the parties are required to arbitrate
• stating damages from being wrongfully enjoined must 23 have been “proximately caused by the injunction”
• damages available if improperly entered preliminary injunction stopped party from taking action it \had at all times the right to do\
• “[Wrongfully enjoined parties] are entitled to damages as may be shown to have been proximately caused by the injunction, up to the amount of the bond.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).