Delaware Business Litigation Report

Court Of Chancery Expands Entitlement To Injunction

AM General Holdings LLC v. The Renco Group Inc., C.A. 7639-VCN (December 21, 2012)

This is an interesting decision because it may extend the circumstances where the Court of Chancery will issue a preliminary mandatory injunction requiring the payment of money.  It is often said, perhaps wrongly, that there is an adequate remedy by the award of damages that precludes issuing an injunction requiring such a payment.  Here, however, the parties' contract contained a provision recognizing that irreparable harm would occur if the payment was not made and the failure to make the payment also frustrated a key provision in the parties' contract governing how their entity would be operated.  That was enough to get the injunction.

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