Because an injunction “prohibits conduct under threat of judicial punishment, basic fairness requires that those enjoined receive explicit notice of precisely what conduct is outlawed.” Under this standard, we have held injunctions to be too vague when they enjoin all violations of a statute in the abstract without any further specification, or when they include, as a necessary descriptor of the forbidden conduct, an undefined term that the circumstances of the case do not clarify.
Indeed, we must always apply the fair notice requirement “in the light of the circumstances surrounding entry: the relief sought by the moving party, the evidence produced at the hearing on the injunction, and the mischief that the injunction seeks to prevent.”
National Academies Report on Effects of Moderate Drinking is a Death Knell
for Recommending Moderate Alcohol Consumption
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The viability of recommending moderate alcohol consumption as a step to
reduce all-cause mortality was given a death blow yesterday by the release
of a r...
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