Frank E. Acierno v. New Castle County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the injury must be a “presently existing actual threat” and not a “remote” or “speculative” possibility of future harm (quoting Cont’l Grp., Inc., 614 F.2d at 359)
• noting that the burden is on the moving party on the first two issues, but the district court should itself consider the second two
• holding an irreparable injury is one of such a “peculiar nature . . . that compensation in money alone cannot atone for it”
• noting “irreparable” in this context “connotes that which cannot be retrieved, put down again, or atoned for”
• affirming denial of preliminary injunction in zoning case where movant had not shown more than potential for purely economic injury
• “showing some potential harm to reputation is usually insufficient to support a conclusion that irreparable harm exists”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).