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§ 526 (a) An injunction may be granted in the following cases: (1) When it appears by the complaint that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, a…

Part 2: Of Civil Actions | Title 7: Other Provisional Remedies in Civil Actions | Chapter 3: Injunction

(a)  An injunction may be granted in the following cases:

(1)  When it appears by the complaint that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, and the relief, or any part thereof, consists in restraining the commission or continuance of the act complained of, either for a limited period or perpetually.

(2)  When it appears by the complaint or affidavits that the commission or continuance of some act during the litigation would produce waste, or great or irreparable injury, to a party to the action.

(3)  When it appears, during the litigation, that a party to the action is doing, or threatens, or is about to do, or is procuring or suffering to be done, some act in violation of the rights of another party to the action respecting the subject of the action, and tending to render the judgment ineffectual.

(4)  When pecuniary compensation would not afford adequate relief.

(5)  Where it would be extremely difficult to ascertain the amount of compensation which would afford adequate relief.

(6)  Where the restraint is necessary to prevent a multiplicity of judicial proceedings.

(7)  Where the obligation arises from a trust.

(b)  An injunction cannot be granted in the following cases:

(1)  To stay a judicial proceeding pending at the commencement of the action in which the injunction is demanded, unless the restraint is necessary to prevent a multiplicity of proceedings.

(2)  To stay proceedings in a court of the United States.

(3)  To stay proceedings in another state upon a judgment of a court of that state.

(4)  To prevent the execution of a public statute by officers of the law for the public benefit.

(5)  To prevent the breach of a contract the performance of which would not be specifically enforced, other than a contract in writing for the rendition of personal services from one to another where the promised service is of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary, or intellectual character, which gives it peculiar value, the loss of which cannot be reasonably or adequately compensated in damages in an action at law, and where the compensation for the personal services is as follows:

(6)  To prevent the exercise of a public or private office, in a lawful manner, by the person in possession.

(7)  To prevent a legislative act by a municipal corporation.

Amendment history: Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 836, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.