Opinion ID: 2198160
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Balance of Harms

Text: Before awarding injunctive relief, we must determine that more harm will result to the movant from the denial of the injunction than will result to the nonmoving part[y] from its grant. Group Ins. Admin., 633 A.2d at 23. Balanced against the District's asserted harms, the harm to Verizon South is less. The only harm to Verizon South from our enjoining the arbitration and having to proceed before the CAB will come to pass only if the arbitration clause in the contract is eventually determined to be enforceable. In that event, Verizon South will have suffered delay in securing the arbitration it had contracted for. Delay, however, is not preclusion. Moreover, as already discussed, although we do not foreclose (pending receipt of the CAB's final opinion on the matter) the possibility that the contract dispute may be arbitrable, based on our analysis and the CAB's preliminary decision on the subject, we have little reason to think that will be the outcome. Therefore, we discount the possible harm to Verizon South.