Management Group, LLC v. Coosa Cable Co.

It would be hard to dispute that the holding of our Court today yields a scheme that, at best, must be considered awkward: A defendant who persuades an appellate court to reverse a permanent injunction will be able to recover “damages” incurred during the relatively brief period at the outset of the litigation during which a preliminary injunction may have been in place (a period sometimes lasting only a few weeks), but will not be able to recover damages for the often much longer period (often extending for many months (11 months in this case)) between the entry of a permanent injunction and…