Opinion ID: 221395
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Heading: The General Prohibition Against Illegal, Unlicensed and False Practices

Text: Rule 65(d) requires an injunction to state its terms specifically and describe in reasonable detail ... the act or acts restrained. Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(d)(1)(B)-(C). The benchmark for clarity and fair notice is not lawyers and judges, who are schooled in the nuances of [the] law, but instead the lay person, who is the target of the injunction. Reno Air Racing Ass'n, Inc. v. McCord, 452 F.3d 1126, 1134 (9th Cir.2006); see also Schmidt v. Lessard, 414 U.S. 473, 476, 94 S.Ct. 713, 38 L.Ed.2d 661 (1974) ([T]he specificity provisions of Rule 65(d) are no mere technical requirements. The Rule was designed to prevent uncertainty and confusion on the part of those faced with injunctive orders, and to avoid the possible founding of a contempt citation on a decree too vague to be understood.). The permanent injunction prohibits the defendants from soliciting and/or performing residential inspections and/or providing inspection reports ... by means of illegal, unlicensed and false practices. The order identifies three prohibited practices as examples  such as  of illegal, unlicensed and false practices: (1) falsely representing that the defendants are properly licensed under Nevada law to perform structural inspections; (2) properly licensed under Nevada law to ... perform, provide or communicate inspection reports; and/or (3) are acting as representatives or agents or under the authority of Del Webb. Even with these examples, the general prohibition against using illegal, unlicensed and false practices is too vague to be enforceable. The examples of prohibited past conduct do not sufficiently define what additional future conduct will be covered. [3] The broad prohibition against soliciting and/or performing residential inspections and/or providing inspection reports ... by means of illegal, unlicensed and false practices is vacated. We next consider the injunction's specific prohibitions.