Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. v. Local 100, Hotel Employees And Restaurant Employees International Union

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “injunctions should not ordinarily issue in defamation cases” because “libels may be remedied by damages”
• when plaintiff brought defamation action seeking injunction against defendant’s public criticism, injunction constituted prior restraint on speech
• \We have never held in this Circuit that a libel becomes subject to an injunction once its libelous character has been adjudicated.\
• “[T]he First Amendment strongly disfavors injunctions that impose a prior restraint on speech.”
• “the First Amendment strongly disfavors injunctions that impose a prior restraint on speech.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).