While this strategy can not be used in emergency circumstances, in most real emergencies one should be able to obtain
substantive temporary relief without discovery or a guardian.
Too often the clients of these attorneys have to reduce their goals — sometimes substantially — because they failed in their premature attempt to obtain
substantive temporary relief.
In these cases a better strategy is often to file a motion for discovery, appointment of a guardian ad litem, or for drug, alcohol or mental health testing with the initial complaint and then seek
substantive temporary relief after one has developed the necessary information.
Not exact matches
My colleagues frequently recount war stories in which their attempts to obtain
substantive relief on a
temporary basis early in the case failed while subsequent discovery uncovered evidence that might have led to a different
temporary result.
An interlocutory injunction, like any other interim order, was intended to be of
temporary duration, dependent on the institution and progress of some proceedings for
substantive relief.