Capitol Records, Inc. v. Vee Jay Records, Inc.

This is an interlocutory appeal from two orders: one granting a temporary injunction, the second denying defendant’s motion to dissolve it.

I think the temporary injunction was improvidently granted because it violated the established rules pertaining to the issuance of temporary restraining orders and failed to maintain the status quo which is one of the principal functions and limitations of this extraordinary remedy.

At the time the injunction was granted, Vee Jay had on file a pleading which controverted the material allegations of the complaint. It was captioned “Motion to Strike,” and the…