Opinion ID: 592894
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Heading: jurisdiction

Text: 5 We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), which states that the courts of appeals shall have jurisdiction of appeals from ... [i]nterlocutory orders of the district courts ... granting, continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions. The State argues that this appeal falls under an exception to § 1292(a)(1) for cases in which an appellate order modifying an injunction would have no impact on the merits of the controversy. See Gardner v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., 437 U.S. 478, 480 (1978). However, Gardner involved a denial of class certification, and not the direct denial of an injunction, which 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1) explicitly gives us jurisdiction to hear. 6