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enjoin

[en-join] / ɛnˈdʒɔɪn /




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The order would also “permanently” restrain and enjoin Musk’s trust from violating the section of the Exchange Act that was the subject of this case, according to the text of the proposed settlement.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

Court of International Trade to enjoin the tariffs so businesses don’t have to pay them while litigation plays out and later seek refunds if higher courts rule them unlawful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

The record describes what is part of the case, and if the record shows violations, then the court has a duty to enjoin that.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025

Going forward, courts may only enjoin enforcement to the extent necessary to give relief to the plaintiffs who brought the case.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025

Some employers go further; instead of relying on the informal “money taboo” to keep workers from discussing and comparing wages, they specifically enjoin workers from doing so.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

“The court hereby enjoins Defendants from executing Keith Nelson until they have met the requirements of the FDCA,” Chutkan wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

The government argued that if the court enjoins Bolton, then its order should also bind his publisher, Simon & Schuster.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020

The May federal ruling further enjoins “officers, agents, and employees” of WPM from “suppressing the availability of truthful negative comments or reviews through any means, including threats, intimidation, non-disparagement clauses, and suppression of online content.”

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018

Tell Don Melchor, 'Tis a hard task which he enjoins me: He knows I love her, and much more than he; For I love her alone, but he divides His passion betwixt two.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“If you’re not actually doing what the District Court found you to be doing and enjoined you from doing, then there should be no harm,” Sung said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

During that period, I would expect that pregnant families would likely file class-action litigation under Rule 23 to try to have the executive order enjoined on a classwide basis.

From Slate ● May 19, 2025

“Nor has the Government adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect,” reads the ruling.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024

Directly after the conference I sent Prime Minister Verwoerd a letter in which I formally enjoined him to call a national constitu-tional convention.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In the book of Genesis, God sealed the covenant with Abraham by enjoining him to “circumscribe the flesh of your foreskin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

On behalf of UCLA, attorney Ray Cardozo argued that Carter erred in enjoining the school from using its baseball stadium on the property even though it was not a named defendant in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

“This broad displacement contradicts what B.P.J. told the court a few months ago — that not one ‘single person’ would be harmed by enjoining this validly enacted state law.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

Both complaints request a preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining defendants from rejecting these ballots.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2022

Edith could have stopped the quarrel by simply enjoining peace, but she could not have done it without resort to parental authority.

From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams


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