Legal Opinion
Flood v. ClearOne Communications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2010No. 09-4017, 09-4065PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Acting on its own motion, the district court issued a preliminary injunction requiring ClearOne to advance attorney fees and costs to its former CEO, who was then facing a criminal trial. ClearOne now appeals the district court’s injunction, arguing that it was predicated on an error of law, and with this we are obliged to agree.
When assessing the former CEO’s entitlement to a preliminary injunction, the district court began by assessing the likelihood she would succeed on the merits of her underlying claim, a claim alleging that the company had an unfulfilled…
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