Section § 3420

Explanation

This law explains that courts can issue injunctions, which are orders to prevent someone from doing something harmful or unlawful. These can be temporary or permanent, depending on the situation.

Preventive relief is granted by injunction, provisional or final.

Section § 3421

Explanation

This section states that provisional injunctions, which are temporary court orders to do or not do something, are governed by another set of rules known as the Code of Civil Procedure.

Provisional injunctions are regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure.

Section § 3422

Explanation

This law section explains when a court can issue a final injunction, which is a court order to do or not do something, to prevent a breach of an obligation. An injunction can be granted if money wouldn’t sufficiently solve the problem, if it’s hard to figure out how much money would solve it, if multiple legal cases could ensue otherwise, or if the issue involves a trust obligation.

Except where otherwise provided by this Title, a final injunction may be granted to prevent the breach of an obligation existing in favor of the applicant:
1. Where pecuniary compensation would not afford adequate relief;
2. Where it would be extremely difficult to ascertain the amount of compensation which would afford adequate relief;
3. Where the restraint is necessary to prevent a multiplicity of judicial proceedings; or,
4. Where the obligation arises from a trust.

Section § 3423

Explanation

This law outlines situations where a court cannot grant an injunction, which is a legal order to stop someone from doing something. It prohibits injunctions to pause ongoing legal cases unless it's to avoid many trials; to halt U.S. or other state court proceedings; to stop public officers from carrying out their duties under the law; or to halt contract breaches of agreements not enforceable by court order, unless it involves unique personal services contracts with specific compensation thresholds. This does not apply if the contract is with a nonprofit cooperative for delivery of products. It also stops injunctions against people lawfully holding and exercising public or private offices, or against city legislative actions.

An injunction may not be granted:
(a)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(a) To stay a judicial proceeding pending at the commencement of the action in which the injunction is demanded, unless this restraint is necessary to prevent a multiplicity of proceedings.
(b)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(b) To stay proceedings in a court of the United States.
(c)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(c) To stay proceedings in another state upon a judgment of a court of that state.
(d)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(d) To prevent the execution of a public statute, by officers of the law, for the public benefit.
(e)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e) 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:
(1)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(1) As to contracts entered into on or before December 31, 1993, the minimum compensation provided in the contract for the personal services shall be at the rate of six thousand dollars ($6,000) per annum.
(2)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(2) As to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 1994, the criteria of subparagraph (A) or (B), as follows, are satisfied:
(A)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(2)(A) The compensation is as follows:
(i)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(2)(A)(i) The minimum compensation provided in the contract shall be at the rate of nine thousand dollars ($9,000) per annum for the first year of the contract, twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum for the second year of the contract, and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum for the third to seventh years, inclusive, of the contract.
(ii)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(2)(A)(ii) In addition, after the third year of the contract, there shall actually have been paid for the services through and including the contract year during which the injunctive relief is sought, over and above the minimum contractual compensation specified in clause (i), the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum during the fourth and fifth years of the contract, and thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) per annum during the sixth and seventh years of the contract. As a condition to petitioning for an injunction, amounts payable under this clause may be paid at any time prior to seeking injunctive relief.
(B)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(2)(B) The aggregate compensation actually received for the services provided under a contract that does not meet the criteria of subparagraph (A), is at least 10 times the applicable aggregate minimum amount specified in clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) through and including the contract year during which the injunctive relief is sought. As a condition to petitioning for an injunction, amounts payable under this subparagraph may be paid at any time prior to seeking injunctive relief.
(3)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(e)(3) Compensation paid in any contract year in excess of the minimums specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) shall apply to reduce the compensation otherwise required to be paid under those provisions in any subsequent contract years.
However, an injunction may be granted to prevent the breach of a contract entered into between any nonprofit cooperative corporation or association and a member or stockholder thereof in respect to any provision regarding the sale or delivery to the corporation or association of the products produced or acquired by the member or stockholder.
(f)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(f) To prevent the exercise of a public or private office, in a lawful manner, by the person in possession.
(g)CA Civil Law Code § 3423(g) To prevent a legislative act by a municipal corporation.

Section § 3424

Explanation

This law explains that a court can change or cancel a final injunction if significant facts or laws have changed, or if it's fair to do so. To request this, you'd file a motion and notify the other party. If the other party hasn't been involved in the case before, you'll serve them like a summons. If they have been involved, you can serve the motion directly to them or their lawyer through some specified methods. However, this rule doesn't apply to injunctions issued under the Family Code.

(a)CA Civil Law Code § 3424(a) Upon notice and motion, the court may modify or dissolve a final injunction upon a showing that there has been a material change in the facts upon which the injunction was granted, that the law upon which the injunction was granted has changed, or that the ends of justice would be served by the modification or dissolution of the injunction.
(b)CA Civil Law Code § 3424(b) Service of this motion to modify or dissolve a final injunction shall be made upon the nonmoving party by one of the following methods:
(1)CA Civil Law Code § 3424(b)(1) If the party has not appeared in the action, the motion shall be served in the same manner as a summons pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 415.10) of Chapter 4 of Title 5 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(2)CA Civil Law Code § 3424(b)(2) If the party has appeared in the action, the motion shall be served either upon the party or his or her attorney, or upon the party if he or she has appeared without an attorney, either in the same manner as a summons pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 415.10) of Chapter 4 of Title 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure or in the manner provided by Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 1010) of Title 14 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(c)CA Civil Law Code § 3424(c) This section does not apply to a final injunction issued pursuant to the Family Code.