George Goff v. Charles Harper, Crispus Nix, Ronald Welder, John Henry

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[t]he burden of proving that a preliminary injunction should be issued rests entirely with the movant”
• observing that “in the prison context, a request for injunctive relief must always be viewed with great caution” given the complexities inherent in prison administration
• finding that a request for injunctive relief should be viewed with caution because judicial restraint is necessary when dealing with the “complex and intractable problems of prison administration”
• observing that “in the prison context, a request for injunctive relief must always be viewed with great caution because judicial restraint is especially called for in dealing with the complex and intractable problems of prison administration”
• requiring “a right must be violated” for an injunction to issue in the prison context
• “While no single factor in the balancing of the equities is determinative, the absence of a finding of irreparable injury is sufficient grounds for vacating a preliminary injunction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).