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injunction

[in-juhngk-shuhn] / ɪnˈdʒʌŋk ʃən /


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After a Mississippi judge granted Chambliss an injunction in February, he will now return for his sixth collegiate season as the highest-profile embodiment of the topsy-turvy world of college football in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

"With the dangerous injunction poised to take effect for the first time on August 21, its stop-work mandate is even more flagrantly inequitable, if not impossible," he wrote.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

But the appeals court noted that the existing injunction specifically allows construction of underground bunkers, bomb shelters and military and medical infrastructure to continue, along with aboveground work strictly necessary for security.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

"The harm is happening now," Apple's lawyers say, and "every day that passes without an injunction allows OpenAI to embed their knowledge of Apple's stolen information into its hardware development efforts."

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

In the meantime, the Tokyo District Court issued an injunction to stay the deportation order on the grounds that a passport violation was not an extraditable offense.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Judge Rita F. Lin could order the federal funding to be reinstated, and indeed has already done so through some temporary preliminary injunctions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The Times story about the leaked documents relates to the court’s emergency docket: the calendar of pending cases not subject to ordinary briefing, such as stays and emergency injunctions.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

Federal judges have issued preliminary injunctions restricting Homeland Security and U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

In nearly all of those cases, he won preliminary rulings from the Supreme Court allowing his policies to take effect, notwithstanding lower-court injunctions that had blocked them.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 2026

The injunctions against the wrong kinds of investigation were so sharp that the parson-naturalists did not even question the myths of creation; it was the perfect separation of church and mental state.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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