N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 6301: Grounds for preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order

§ 6301. Grounds for preliminary injunction and temporary restraining

order. A preliminary injunction may be granted in any action where it

appears that the defendant threatens or is about to do, or is doing or

procuring or suffering to be done, an act in violation of the

plaintiff's rights respecting the subject of the action, and tending to

render the judgment ineffectual, or in any action where the plaintiff

has demanded and would be entitled to a judgment restraining the

defendant from the commission or continuance of an act, which, if

committed or continued during the pendency of the action, would produce

injury to the plaintiff. A temporary restraining order may be granted

pending a hearing for a preliminary injunction where it appears that

immediate and irreparable injury, loss or damage will result unless the

defendant is restrained before the hearing can be had.