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Area of Law: | Litigation & Procedure |
Keywords: | Temporary injunctive relief; Legal remedy; Injury |
Jurisdiction: | Minnesota |
Cited Cases: | None |
Cited Statutes: | None |
Date: | 07/01/2013 |
To be entitled to any temporary injunctive relief, the harm plaintiff is likely to suffer must be irreparable; injuries alone are not enough. Morse v. City of Waterville, 458 N.W.2d 728, 729 (Minn. Ct. App. 1990); Smith v. Peoples Nat’l Bank of Mora, No. 92-956 (Minn. Ct. App. May 14, 1996). The legal remedy—damages—must be inadequate.
Irreparable harm occurs when a party has no adequate legal remedy. Mere injuries, however substantial, in terms of money, time and energy necessarily expended in the absence [of a temporary injunction], are not enough. The possibility that adequate compensatory or other corrective relief will be available at a later date, in the ordinary course of litigation, weighs heavily against a claim of irreparable harm.
Bromen Office 1 Inc. v. Coens, No. 04-046 (Minn. Ct. App. Dec. 28, 2004). Put another way, “[w]here the injury alleged is primarily economic, grounds for a temporary injunction are not established.” Id.
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