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In re DeLorean Motor Company

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
755 F.2d 1223
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
61 of 61
Citing cases (total)
61
Treatment dates
2025
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. One district court criticized In re DeLorean Motor Company's preliminary-injunction balancing approach. The 2025 decision, listed below, treats the four considerations as requirements and calls DeLorean's sliding scale inscrutable.
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Criticized

  • The district court called DeLorean's sliding scale for preliminary injunctions inscrutable.

    Carter v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services · U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee · filed

    And the Court believes that it should follow the latter line of cases, i.e., those that treat the standard as involving requirements rather than factors. ... This is especially true given that case-specific balancing apparently is based in part on some inscrutable sliding scale of required likelihood of success on the merits that depends on the strength of the other three factors. See, e.g., In re DeLorean Motor Co., 755 F.2d 1223, 1229 (6th Cir.1985) (“[T]he degree of likelihood of success required may depend on the strength of the other factors.”).
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