Injunction

5,622 Florida cases classified under this topic, plus 6,126 listed through its narrower topics · sorted by citation count · see the citation graph · browse and sort

• Garner v. DE Soto Ranch, Inc.
  150 So. 2d 493· Fla. 2d DCA· 1963-02-15 ·cited 15×
  The court affirmed the dismissal of a complaint seeking a declaratory decree regarding county ownership of a road, finding the complaint failed to state a cause of action.
• Tolar v. Johns
  147 So. 2d 196· Fla. 2d DCA· 1962-11-28 ·cited 15×
  A city commissioner sought to block a recall election by challenging the sufficiency of grounds stated in a recall petition. The Florida Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's injunction against the recall, holding that the grounds alleged—disagreement with the commissioner's
• Hillsborough Inv. Corp. v. Sec. & Exch. Comm'n
  276 F.2d 665· 1st Cir.· 1960-04-08 ·cited 15×
  The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing a broad injunction against the sale of any securities by Hillsborough Investment Corporation, as the company's plan to issue new securities constituted an attempt to evade a prior injunction and circum
• Bd. OF Pub. Instruction OF Dade Cnty. v. Little River Valley Drainage Dist.
  119 So. 2d 323· Fla. 3d DCA· 1960-03-31 ·cited 15×
  The Board of Public Instruction of Dade County challenged drainage district tax assessments and threatened tax deed sales on school property. The court held that while drainage assessment liens can be imposed on school property, they cannot be enforced through tax sale or foreclo
• Town of Bay Harbor Islands v. Schlapik
  57 So. 2d 855· Fla.· 1952-03-28 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's injunction against a town's enforcement of an ambiguous ordinance that restricted construction during certain months. The court found the ordinance's restrictions disproportionate to any public benefit and unwarranted.
• Cold Metal Process Co. v. United Eng'g & Foundry Co.
  190 F.2d 217· 3d Cir.· 1951-06-08 ·cited 15×·via Preliminary Injunction
  The court held that the lower court erred in dismissing the counterclaim as not ancillary, and remanded the case for reconsideration of all issues.
• Universal Const. Co. v. Gore
  51 So. 2d 429· Fla.· 1950-12-08 ·cited 15×
  The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed a lower court's decree regarding a municipal bond issue and construction contract. The court addressed disputes over a contractor's obligation to build additional structures, the commencement date of a lease, and the award of attorney fees, u
• Standard Oil Co. v. City of Tallahassee
  183 F.2d 410· 5th Cir.· 1950-06-30 ·cited 15×
• Bateman v. City OF Winter Park
  160 Fla. 906· Fla.· 1948-10-26 ·cited 15×
  A city cannot refuse to accept a license tax from a business holding a valid state license for the sale of intoxicating beverages, even if the city believes the license violates state population restrictions.
• Turner v. City OF Miami
  160 Fla. 317· Fla.· 1948-03-23 ·cited 15×
  Turner, a liquor package store licensee, sought an injunction to prevent the City of Miami from issuing a competing liquor license to B & B Stores, Inc., claiming the proposed location violated the city's 2500-foot separation ordinance. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the dism
• Fleming v. Moberly Milk Prods. Co.
  160 F.2d 259· D.C. Cir.· 1947-02-14 ·cited 15×
  The court held that the district court lacked jurisdiction to review the Administrator's sugar rationing order, and even if it had jurisdiction, the relevant statutory provisions did not entitle the appellee to relief.
• Henderson v. Burd
  133 F.2d 515· 2d Cir.· 1943-02-09 ·cited 15×·via Preliminary Injunction
  The court held that the preliminary injunction was properly granted regarding sales of nylon hose, but the injunction's scope regarding other hosiery was too broad and needed modification.
• Dwinell-Wright Co. v. Nat'l Fruit Prod. Co., Inc.
  129 F.2d 848· 1st Cir.· 1942-07-16 ·cited 15×
  A district court may enjoin a party from prosecuting a trademark cancellation proceeding before the Patent Office when the validity of the trademark is already at issue in a pending federal court action between the same parties.
• Solomon v. Gordon
  4 So. 2d 710· Fla.· 1941-11-25 ·cited 15×
  The Supreme Court of Florida reviewed an interlocutory order that denied a stay of proceedings in a new lawsuit. The court held that the new lawsuit should be stayed until a related appeal concerning a contempt order was resolved, as both cases involved the same subject matter an
• Hagerty v. S. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Inc.
  145 Fla. 51· Fla.· 1940-10-25 ·cited 15×
  Walter Hagerty sought equitable relief to compel Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company to continue providing telephone service after the company announced it would discontinue service in response to demands from state and federal authorities that the service was being used
• Miller v. Sec. Peoples Tr. Co.
  142 Fla. 434· Fla.· 1940-03-15 ·cited 15×
  In a creditor's bill filed by Security Peoples Trust Co. against Howard C. Miller and others, the Florida Supreme Court held that a creditor need only exhaust legal remedies on a judgment rendered in Florida, not on the foreign judgment upon which the Florida judgment is predicat
• City of Panama City v. Pledger
  140 Fla. 629· Fla.· 1939-10-06 ·cited 15×
  This case concerns whether land leased by the City of Panama City to Southern Kraft Corporation is exempt from state and county taxes. The court found that the land, used by Kraft for its private business purposes, was not being used for municipal purposes and was therefore subje
• Fla. Dry Cleaning & Laundry Bd. v. Everglades Laundry, Inc.
  137 Fla. 290· Fla.· 1939-04-21 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Chapter 17894, which authorized a state board to fix prices and license fees for laundry and dry cleaning businesses, but reversed a temporary restraining order and remanded for determination of whether the board's specifi
• Bristol-Myers Co. v. Webb's Cut-Rate Drug Co., Inc.
  137 Fla. 508· Fla.· 1939-04-14 ·cited 15×
  Bristol-Myers Company sought to enjoin Webb's Cut-Rate Drug Co. from selling drugs below minimum prices established in voluntary contracts with other retailers, relying on Florida's fair trade law. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed dismissal of the complaint, holding that Sectio
• Hagerty v. Coleman
  133 Fla. 363· Fla.· 1938-07-08 ·cited 15×
  Walter Hagerty, a telephone information service operator, sought to enjoin the Sheriff of Dade County from seizing his telephone equipment used to transmit horse racing information to gambling operations. The Florida Supreme Court reversed the lower court's dismissal of the compl
• Vorhees v. City of Moore Haven
  125 Fla. 149· Fla.· 1936-08-03 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a bill of complaint seeking to enjoin the issuance of waterworks revenue certificates. The court held that these certificates, payable solely from the revenue of the waterworks system, did not require a freeholder el
• Lee v. Bond-Howell Lumber Co.
  123 Fla. 202· Fla.· 1936-03-10 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court reviewed a lower court's injunction that halted the enforcement of a tax act. The court held that specific, severable portions of the tax act were constitutional and enforceable from their stated effective dates, despite the lower court's ruling that the
• First State Sav. Bank of Morenci v. Little River Drainage Dist.
  122 Fla. 304· Fla.· 1935-12-27 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court reversed a lower court's denial of an injunction that would prevent a drainage district from accepting bonds and interest coupons in payment of taxes owed to the district. The court held that where bonds are payable in money, the legislature cannot autho
• Smetal Corp. v. Fam. Loan Co.
  119 Fla. 497· Fla.· 1935-03-26 ·cited 15×·via Temporary Injunction
  Smetal Corporation sued Family Loan Company to void loans allegedly made in violation of Florida's Small Loan Act (Chapter 10177, Laws of 1925), which regulated interest rates and loan amounts for licensed lenders. The trial court denied the defendant's motion to dismiss but part
• Henderson v. Leatherman
  120 Fla. 496· Fla.· 1935-01-24 ·cited 15×
  A beneficiary of a trust estate sought to enjoin the issuance of tax deeds on property for unpaid taxes, alleging the property was assessed at excessive and discriminatory values in violation of the Florida Constitution and Fourteenth Amendment. The Florida Supreme Court reversed
• Tyler v. Elwyn Thomas
  114 Fla. 368· Fla.· 1934-03-27 ·cited 15×
  Frank M. Tyler, a retiring tax collector, sought a writ of prohibition to prevent Circuit Court Judge Elwyn Thomas from interfering with a prior court order that entitled Tyler to commissions on redeemed tax sale certificates. The Florida Supreme Court held that the prior judgmen
• Earle v. Detroit & Sec. Tr. Co.
  103 Fla. 618· Fla.· 1931-11-20 ·cited 15×·via Mandatory Injunction
  This case addresses the authority of a chancery court to compel oral examination of a defendant trustee before the pleadings are settled. The Florida Supreme Court held that under the 1929 statute, such examination is permissible only after the defendant's answer has been filed a
• Monroe Grantham v. Bd. of Pub. Instruction of DeSoto Cnty.
  77 Fla. 540· Fla.· 1919-05-05 ·cited 15×
  This case involves a lawsuit to stop the issuance of school bonds. The court found that the election process and the board's resolution did not comply with constitutional and statutory requirements regarding voter qualifications and bond payment terms. The court reversed the dism
• Jackson v. Magbee
  21 Fla. 622· Fla.· 1885-06-01 ·cited 15×
  Thomas Jackson sought reformation of a deed conveying land to Leonardy (and subsequently to Magbee) based on mutual mistake regarding the acreage described. The court held that equity may reform written instruments when a clear mutual mistake exists and is proven by satisfactory
• City of Apalachicola v. Lewis Curtis and others
  9 Fla. 340· Fla.· 1861-01-01 ·cited 15×
  The Florida Supreme Court reversed the lower court's denial of an injunction in a bill for mesne profits filed by the City of Apalachicola against the trustees of the Apalachicola Land Company, holding that the city had a prima facie right to recover profits from its dedicated pu
• NetChoice, LLC v. Attorney Gen., State of Fla.
  34 F.4th 1196· 11th Cir.· 2022-05-23 ·cited 14×·via Preliminary Injunction
  Social-media platforms Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok are private companies whose content-moderation decisions constitute protected editorial judgment under the First Amendment, and therefore Florida's S.B. 7072, which prohibits them from deplatforming political candidate
• Colley v. State
  310 So. 3d 2· Fla.· 2020-11-25 ·cited 14×·via Domestic Violence Injunction
  James Terry Colley, Jr. was convicted of two first-degree murders and sentenced to death. On direct appeal to the Florida Supreme Court, Colley challenged the trial court's findings of two aggravating factors (cold, calculated, premeditation and heinous, atrocious, or cruel murde
• Lucius v. Judd
  783 F. Supp. 2d 1183· M.D. Fla.· 2019-08-16 ·cited 14×·via Preliminary Injunction
  The court denied the plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order because he failed to comply with procedural rules.
• Dep't of State v. Fla. Greyhound Ass'n, Inc.
  253 So. 3d 513· Fla.· 2018-09-07 ·cited 14×
  Amendment 13's ballot language is not clearly and conclusively defective. The fundamental value provision recognizing humane treatment of animals is prefatory and lacks independent legal significance, so its omission from the ballot summary does not render the language defective.
• Iraelio Alcolea Leal v. Orielyn Diaz Rodriguez
  220 So. 3d 543· Fla. 3d DCA· 2017-06-07 ·cited 14×·via Domestic Violence Injunction
  In a domestic violence injunction appeal, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's issuance of a final injunction for protection against domestic violence. The court held that the wife's evidence of the husband's prior violence, controlling behavior, threats,
• Am. Learning Sys., Inc. v. Breno Gomes and Adriana Gomes
  199 So. 3d 1076· Fla. 4th DCA· 2016-08-31 ·cited 14×
  A private school appeals the circuit court's grant of a temporary injunction requiring release of high school transcripts to parents who withdrew their children and allegedly breached their enrollment contract by failing to pay tuition. The appellate court reverses, holding that
• Romano v. Olshen
  153 So. 3d 912· Fla. 4th DCA· 2014-03-12 ·cited 14×·via Temporary Injunction
  This consolidated appeal involves a dispute over whether a professional guardian could access a joint brokerage account (the Oppenheimer Account) titled in the incapacitated ward's and his estranged spouse's names to pay guardianship administration fees and the ward's necessary e
• Odebrecht Constr., Inc. v. Sec'y, Fla. Dep't OF Transp.
  715 F.3d 1268· 11th Cir.· 2013-05-06 ·cited 14×·via Preliminary Injunction
  Odebrecht Construction, a Florida corporation with no direct business operations in Cuba, challenged Florida's Cuba Amendment, which prohibits companies doing business in Cuba—or affiliated with companies doing business in Cuba—from bidding on state and local public contracts wor
• Hilb Rogal & Hobbs OF Fla., Inc. v. Grimmel
  48 So. 3d 957· Fla. 4th DCA· 2010-12-01 ·cited 14×·via Temporary Injunction
  HRH, an insurance broker, appeals the trial court's dissolution of a temporary injunction against former employee Grimmel, who violated a non-piracy clause by soliciting HRH's customers after starting a competing firm. The court reversed, holding that HRH established a legitimate
• Elandia Int'l, Inc. v. Ah Koy
  690 F. Supp. 2d 1317· S.D. Fla.· 2010-02-17 ·cited 14×·via Anti-Suit Injunction
  The court held that personal jurisdiction over the defendants exists under Florida's long-arm statute for tortious acts committed outside the state that caused injury within Florida, and for contractual actions that submitted to Florida jurisdiction.
• Vill. OF Doral Place Ass'n, Inc. v. RU4 Real, Inc.
  22 So. 3d 627· Fla. 3d DCA· 2009-10-14 ·cited 14×
  The court held that a condominium's common elements, including a swimming pool on common property, cannot be separately sold via tax deed even when the condominium association fails to pay property taxes. The court resolved a conflict between tax deed statutes and condominium law
• Dany Katz Gilbert and Lawrence Gilbert v. Fla. Power & Light Co.
  981 So. 2d 609· Fla. 4th DCA· 2008-05-14 ·cited 14×
  The Gilberts appealed multiple orders regarding their dispute with Florida Power & Light Company over a noisy transformer on FPL's easement. The court affirmed orders requiring the Gilberts to pay for the transformer's removal under FPL's tariff, reversed the denial of their moti
• In re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases
  953 So. 2d 495· Fla.· 2007-03-29 ·cited 14×
  The Florida Supreme Court approved amendments to standard jury instructions in criminal cases, including new instructions on cyberstalking, dangerous sexual offenders, and burglary-related crimes, with one instruction (Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender) remanded for further study
• E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. v. Bassett
  947 So. 2d 1195· Fla. 4th DCA· 2007-01-24 ·cited 14×·via Temporary Injunction
  The court held that the employer failed to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable harm and the unavailability of an adequate remedy at law, thus affirming the denial of a temporary injunction.
• Anwar Saadeh and Mary Anne Saadeh v. Stanton Rowing Found., Inc.
  912 So. 2d 28· Fla. 1st DCA· 2005-08-23 ·cited 14×
  The Saadehs sued Stanton Rowing Foundation for nuisance and sought an injunction based on alleged violations of Jacksonville's zoning ordinance. The trial court granted summary judgment for Stanton based on res judicata, relying on an earlier zoning case decision. The court rever
• The Sch. Bd. OF Osceola Cnty. v. State Bd. OF Educ.
  903 So. 2d 963· Fla. 5th DCA· 2005-04-22 ·cited 14×
  The court held that the trial court correctly granted the State Board's motion to change venue to Leon County based on its home venue privilege.
• Autonation, Inc. v. O'Brien
  347 F. Supp. 2d 1299· S.D. Fla.· 2004-12-02 ·cited 14×·via Preliminary Injunction
  The court granted AutoNation's motion for a preliminary injunction, finding a substantial likelihood of success on the merits regarding the non-compete agreement.
• Dragomirecky v. Town OF Ponce Inlet
  882 So. 2d 495· Fla. 5th DCA· 2004-09-17 ·cited 14×·via Preliminary Injunction
  The court held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for an injunction and stay to prevent the demolition of a house constructed in violation of building codes.
• City OF Indian Rocks Beach v. Tomalo
  834 So. 2d 341· Fla. 2d DCA· 2003-01-08 ·cited 14×
  The City of Indian Rocks Beach challenged a circuit court order that enforced a prior certiorari decision by directing the City to remove a dock or ensure its removal. The appellate court reversed, holding that the circuit court lacked authority to issue an injunction that was ne
• City OF N. Lauderdale v. SMM Props., Inc.
  825 So. 2d 343· Fla.· 2002-08-22 ·cited 14×
  The Florida Supreme Court held that emergency medical services (EMS) do not provide a special benefit to real property and therefore cannot be funded through a special assessment. The Court distinguished between first-response medical aid (a routine firefighter duty upheld in Lak