Preliminary Injunctions
Advantages:
1 low cost
2 held by not open court hearings
3 judge is able to hold hearings for parties separately
4 speedy solution is strongly required
5 Plaintiff can withdraw the claim without defendant’s consent
6 In other words, plaintiff is able to back off by withdrawing so when he or she is likely to lose Consider permanent injunction in a regular litigation:
7 It is a general practice to claim both injunction and damage award
8 The number of cases using preliminary injunction amounts to more than 50% of that of cases subsequently litigated