Injunctions and the Irreparable Injury Rule
The Civil Rights Injunction is of more general legal interest than its title suggests. It is only incidentally about civil rights; its thesis concerns all injunctions and, inferentially, all of equity. The book is a plea for abolition of the rules that subordinate equitable remedies to legal remedies--the irreparable injury rule, the prior restraint rule, and the dying rules that equity protects only property rights and will not enjoin a crime. These rules create a remedial hierarchy in which legal remedies are presumptively appropriate, and in which equitable remedies are used only if legal remedies are inadequate and no other subordinating rule interferes.