Pretrial Injunctive Relief: Enforcing Pretrial Injunctions Checklist (Federal)

Summary

This checklist discusses how to enforce a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order (collectively, pretrial injunctive relief) in a federal case and covers topics such as the court's authority to enforce its orders, types of sanctions—including monetary, imprisonment, and fee-shifting—procedures to enforce contempt, distinguishing civil and criminal contempt, constitutional protections, and immediate and interlocutory appellate review of contempt rulings and sanctions.