Complex sentence: English filed her lawsuit shortly after outgoing director Richard Cordray resigned, and sought a temporary restraining order to prevent Mick Mulvaney from becoming the Acting Director of the CFPB.
Split into simpler sentences: English filed her lawsuit shortly after outgoing director Richard Cordray resigned, and sought to block Mulvaney from taking temporary control of the agency. The lawsuit sought a temporary restraining order to prevent Mick Mulvaney from becoming the Acting Director of the CFPB.