Opinion ID: 1783662
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Second Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Text: On January 7, 1994 Perley filed a second motion for a preliminary injunction, seeking (1) to invalidate the corporate elections that had been based on the amended bylaws and (2) to reinstate himself as president of Tapscan. Following a second hearing, at which the trial judge ruled that Perley had not shown irreparable injury, the court on January 10 denied the motion for preliminary injunction as to both requests for relief. Perley appealed that ruling as to both requests on January 12 (appeals 1930476 and 1930477). Perley also moved this Court for an injunction pending this Court's ruling on the appeals; this Court denied that motion on March 1, 1994. On appeal, Perley and an amicus curiae, law professor Howard Walthall, contend that this Court must determine the legality of the bylaw amendments before it can consider the issue of the trial judge's denial of Perley's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent Tapscan from operating under the bylaw amendments. We disagree. Even though the trial court ruled that the bylaw amendments were valid, the court based its denial of Perley's first motion for a preliminary injunction on a finding that Perley had not met his required showing that he would incur irreparable injury if Tapscan was allowed to proceed under the amended bylaws.