Majorica, S.A. v. R.H. MacY & Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a preliminary injunction is available only after an action has been commenced by the filing of a complaint
• holding that when a movant fails to demonstrate a “significant 8 threat of irreparable injury . . . [courts] need not decide whether [movants] will eventually 9 prevail in [their] claims”
• reversing grant of preliminary injunction where plaintiff was aware of conduct complained of for several years but did not seek injunctive relief until seven months after filing suit
• reversal of district court’s grant of preliminary injunction “does not, of course, bear upon the merits of [plaintiff’s] claim for permanent relief”
• “Lack of diligence, standing alone, may ... preclude the granting of preliminary injunctive relief, because it goes primarily to the issue of irreparable harm.”
• “Lack of diligence, standing alone, may . . . preclude the granting of preliminary injunctive relief.”

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