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sliding scale standard in Virgin Islands

10 Virgin Islands opinions name it 2 courts 2013–2025 1 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Virgin Islands courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (5)

CaseFollowedCited
Alliance for Wild Rockies v. Cottrellgreen
ca9 · 2011 · cited in 2 Virgin Islands opinions naming this issue, 2013–2015
2 sentences

2015Election Comm’n, 575 F.3d 342, 346-47 (4th Cir. 2009) (holding that Winter requires a sequential test), vacated on other grounds by 559 U.S. 1089 , 130 S.Ct. 2371 , 176 L.Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (‘[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘serious questions’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary injunctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.’)”).

2013Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (“[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘ serious questions ’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary inj unctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.”); see also Rachel A. Weisshaar, Hazy Shades of Winter: Resolving the Circuit Split over Preliminary Injunctions, 65 Vand.

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Yusuf v. Hamed ex rel. Hamedgreen
virginislands · 2013 · cited in 6 Virgin Islands opinions naming this issue, 2015–2025
2 sentences

2025“To prevail on a motion for preliminary injunction, the moving party bears the burden of ‘making some showing on all four injunction factors,’ which the Superior Court must evaluate under a sliding-scale standard.’” /d. at 584 (quoting 3RC & Co., 63 V.I. at 557)) 438 “In conducting this sliding-scale analysis, the Superior Court must make findings on each of the four factors and determine whether — when the factors are considered together and weighed against one another the moving party has made ‘a clear showing that [it] is entitled to [injunctive] relief.’” 3RC & Co., 63 V.I. at 557 (quoting

2025“To prevail on a motion for preliminary injunction, the moving party bears the burden of ‘making some showing on all four injunction factors,’ which the Superior Court must evaluate under a sliding-scale standard.’” /d. at 584 (quoting 3RC & Co., 63 V.I. at 557)) 438 “In conducting this sliding-scale analysis, the Superior Court must make findings on each of the four factors and determine whether — when the factors are considered together and weighed against one another the moving party has made ‘a clear showing that [it] is entitled to [injunctive] relief.’” 3RC & Co., 63 V.I. at 557 (quoting

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3RC & Co. v. Boynes Trucking System, Inc.green
virginislands · 2015 · cited in 3 Virgin Islands opinions naming this issue, 2016–2017
2 sentences

2017In addition, this Court has explained that although the party requesting a preliminary injunction “has the burden of making some showing on all four injunction factors,” it remains the responsibility of “the Superior Court [to] evaluate the moving party’s showing on all four factors under a sliding-scale standard,” in which “the Superior Court must make findings on each of the four factors and determine whether — when the factors are considered together and weighed against one another—the moving party has made ‘a clear showing that [it] is entitled to [injunctive] relief.’ ” 3RC & Co. v. Boyne

2016In evaluating the injunctive motion, the Supreme Court instructed that the Superior Court “must evaluate the moving party’s showing on all four factors under a sliding scale standard.” Id.

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cluster 45green
· · cited in 1 Virgin Islands opinions naming this issue, 2015–2015
1 sentence

2015And under the sliding-scale standard, the Superior Court may grant an injunction with an even weaker showing on the merits than that articulated in Yusuf if the Superior Court concludes that the moving party has made a strong enough showing on the other three factors to nonetheless establish “a clear showing that [it] is entitled to [injunctive] relief.” Id. at 847; see also Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. v. VCG Special Opportunities Master Fund Ltd., 598 F.3d 30, 35 (2d Cir. 2010) (a trial court may “grant a preliminary injunction in situations where it cannot determine with certainty that th

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Real Truth About Obama, Inc. v. Federal Election Commissiongreen
ca4 · 2009 · cited in 1 Virgin Islands opinions naming this issue, 2015–2015
1 sentence

2015Election Comm’n, 575 F.3d 342, 346-47 (4th Cir. 2009) (holding that Winter requires a sequential test), vacated on other grounds by 559 U.S. 1089 , 130 S.Ct. 2371 , 176 L.Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (‘[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘serious questions’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary injunctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.’)”).

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Virgin Islands. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (4)

CaseCitedYears
VI Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corp v. Wrensford green
virginislands · 2025
2 sentences

2025For a preliminary VIGHHFC et al. v. Wrensford 2025 VI 12 S. Ct. Civ.

2025For a preliminary VIGHHFC et al. v. Wrensford 2025 VI 12 S. Ct. Civ.

12025–2025
Brown v. United States green
scotus · 2010
1 sentence

2015Election Comm’n, 575 F.3d 342, 346-47 (4th Cir. 2009) (holding that Winter requires a sequential test), vacated on other grounds by 559 U.S. 1089 , 130 S.Ct. 2371 , 176 L.Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (‘[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘serious questions’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary injunctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.’)”).

12015–2015
Qian Chen v. Martinez green
scotus · 2010
1 sentence

2015Election Comm’n, 575 F.3d 342, 346-47 (4th Cir. 2009) (holding that Winter requires a sequential test), vacated on other grounds by 559 U.S. 1089 , 130 S.Ct. 2371 , 176 L.Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (‘[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘serious questions’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary injunctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.’)”).

12015–2015
Real Truth About Obama, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission green
scotus · 2010
1 sentence

2015Election Comm’n, 575 F.3d 342, 346-47 (4th Cir. 2009) (holding that Winter requires a sequential test), vacated on other grounds by 559 U.S. 1089 , 130 S.Ct. 2371 , 176 L.Ed. 2d 764 (2010), with Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 632 F.3d 1127, 1134 (9th Cir. 2011) (‘[W]e join the Seventh and the Second Circuits in concluding that the ‘serious questions’ version of the sliding scale test for preliminary injunctions remains viable after the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter.’)”).

12015–2015

Statutes the citing opinions construe

USC § 48u.s.c.1613a(d) (3)

Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.

Where else courts name it

CA 22 (1987–2026) NJ 11 (1981–2024) VI 10 (2013–2025) TX 8 (2009–2025) AK 6 (1992–2013) MT 3 (2024–2025) RI 3 (1990–2016) PA 3 (1981–2021) FL 2 (1989–2011) OK 2 (2014–2014) IL 2 (2005–2005) NY 2 (1981–2007) WA 2 (2010–2010) IN 2 (1997–2009) UT 2 (2014–2015)

Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.

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