Court Opinion

ID: 9691284
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 20:22:10.646824+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:15.678592
License: Public Domain

MOTION TO REARGUE
This is a motion by the defendant to reargue the granting of a preliminary injunction in an opinion filed July 20, 1972. That motion is granted, but I see no need for oral argument or for further affidavits. . See Local General Rule 9(m).
The defendant is concerned that the relief I contemplate exceeds its concept of maintaining the status quo. However, defining what is the status quo in this situation is difficult, in view of the need to eliminate what have been found to be reprisals and the dispute as to what was actually the last non-contested status of the parties. And even assuming that the relief does alter the status quo, it is proper because Michael Lepore had made a sufficient showing of potential irreparable harm. See Flood v. Kuhn, 309 F.Supp. 793, 799 & n. 20 (S.D.N.Y.1970). I previously cited examples of similar cases in which the Court ordered or suggested relief altering the status quo.*
Accordingly, I adhere to my previous decision regarding delivery of the Times by Michael and the imposition of a mandatory billing charge. Likewise, I still expect the News to provide 500 sample newspapers per day, to be used as free samples by Michael. Furthermore, this relief is not to be accompanied by any self-decreed divergences from the status quo by the News; I refer specifically to its threat to increase its charge to Michael to the “standard dealer price.”
A reconsideration of the balance of interests, pendente lite, including the public interest and the interest of Brinkman, the automatic vending machine distributor, prompts me to withdraw that aspect of the relief that dealt with the vending machines in Co-Op City.
Settle order on five days’ notice. That order should make provision for a bond in an amount to be determined on settlement of the order, Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(c). Written suggestions of the amount of the bond will be considered.

 See authorities cited at the bottom, of page 761 of the July 20,1972 opinion.