Opinion ID: 2320756
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Heading: The Terms of the Injunctions

Text: Simultaneously with entry of a default judgment, the district court imposed separate, but substantively identical, permanent injunctions to abate the public nuisance caused by Adventure Outdoors and Mickalis Pawn. Mickalis Pawn Inj., 2009 WL 792042, ¶ 1; Adventure Outdoors Inj., 2009 WL 792023, ¶ 1 (same). The injunctions provide for the appointment of a special master (the Special Master) to implement, and monitor the defendants' compliance with, certain remedial measures contemplated by the injunctions. Mickalis Pawn Inj., 2009 WL 792042, ¶ 2. Paragraph 3 of each injunction provides, with respect to the duties of the Special Master: It will be the responsibility of the Special Master to ensure, to the fullest extent practicable, that from the effective date of this [injunction] forward, firearms sales by [the defendant] are made in full conformity with applicable laws pertaining to firearms and that [the defendant] adopts appropriate prophylactic measures to prevent violation of the firearms laws. Id. ¶ 3. [27] Paragraph 7 of each injunction mandates that [the defendant] shall adopt those practices that in the opinion of the Special Master serve to prevent in whole or in part[ [28] ] the illegal sale of firearms. [The defendant] shall also adopt those prophylactic practices that in the opinion of the Special Master will serve to prevent the movement of guns into the illegal market. Id. ¶ 7 (footnote added). The injunctions contemplate several ways by which the defendants may become subject to penalties. First, any participation by the defendants in a straw purchaseor any sale otherwise in violation of Federal, State, or local law or regulation, as determined by the Special Masterconstitutes a violation punishable by a fine that increases with each successive violation. [29] Id. ¶ 12. The term straw purchase is defined as including [a] sale. . . made to an investigator conducting a `Simulated Straw Purchase,' which shall mean a purchase in a form substantially as described in the Amended Complaint filed in this action, for example, in paragraph 188. Id. ¶ 13(iii). The injunctions also provide, more generally, that any other [a]ction[] . . . by which [the defendant] seeks to evade any of the requirement[s] of the injunction constitutes a violation. Id. ¶ 8. Finally, any failure by the defendants to cooperate with the Special Master, as determined by the Special Master himself, constitutes a violation. Id. If the defendants fully comply with the foregoing terms, each injunction terminates automatically after three years. Id. ¶ 17. Any violation of the injunction, howeveror any violation of an applicable firearms law or regulation certified to have occurred by the Special Master will re-commence the running of the three-year Compliance Period from the date of the violation. Id. ¶ 18.