Court Opinion

ID: 9451753
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:23:02.603451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:52.525170
License: Public Domain

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge
(concurring in the result):
I concur in the result. However, I believe the order under attack is not ap-pealable. The majority’s exception to the holding of Austin v. Altman, 332 F.2d 273 (2d Cir. 1964) would swallow up the rule denying appealability from denial or vacation of a temporary restraining order. Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(b), a party *734is entitled to a temporary restraining order only upon proof of the threat of “immediate and irreparable injury,” and such an order can last no longer than twenty days, unless the party restrained consents. Erroneous denial of a temporary restraining order, by hypothesis, leaves a plaintiff unprotected from immediate and irreparable injury; hence, mootness will ordinarily follow unless immediate corrective appellate action is sought or a motion for a preliminary injunction is pressed in the trial court. The latter course can be taken as quickly as circumstances require and allows the trial court to consider the matter on a fuller record with a clear right of appeal to the parties thereafter. I believe this is the procedure envisaged by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) (1).
On the merits of the majority opinion, I agree completely.