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Practice question: Preliminary Injunction vs. Temporary Restraining Order vs. Status Quo Ante Order

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Practice question

A court labels an order status quo but directs a developer, which has never supplied security guards, to hire and maintain a new guard force during trial. The applicant says the label removes injunction safeguards. Which is best?
  1. The substance imposes affirmative action; the label alone cannot turn it into mere preservation of the prior state
  2. Any order called status quo escapes all safeguards
  3. Hiring guards is necessarily a purely negative command
  4. A contractual allegation alone supplies every procedural requisite
  5. Courts can never issue any protective interlocutory order

Legal references

  • Megaworld v. Majestic Finance, G.R.169694, December9 2015: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/dec2015/gr_169694_2015.html

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