State of Alabama v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that court erred in premising grant of preliminary injunction on showing that applicant was likely to succeed on the merits of issue unrelated to relevant claims
• explaining that a request for an equitable remedy “must be based upon a cause of action”
• stating that “injunctive relief must relate in some fashion to the relief requested in the complaint”
• explaining that a complaint is required because “injunctive relief must relate in some fashion to the relief requested in the complaint.”
• indicating that because its sole function is to forestall future harm, injunctive relief is “completely at odds with a sanction for past conduct that may be addressed by adequate remedies at law.”
• explaining that to be appealable under § 1292(a)(1), an order granting injunc- tive relief generally must be “(1) a clearly defined and understand- able directive by the court to act or to refrain from a particular ac- tion; and (2

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