Injunctions and Restraining Orders

(a) Preliminary Injunction. (1) Notice. The chancery court may issue a preliminary injunction only on notice to the adverse party. (2) Consolidating the Hearing with the Trial on the Merits. Before or after beginning the hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction, the chancery court may advance the trial on the merits and consolidate it with the hearing. Even when consolidation is not ordered, evidence that is received on the motion and that would be admissible at trial becomes part of the trial record and need not be repeated at trial. (b) Temporary Restraining Order. (1) Issuing Without Notice. The chancery court may issue a temporary restraining order without written or oral notice to the adverse party or its attorney only if: (A) specific facts in an affidavit or a verified complaint clearly show that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant before the adverse party can be heard in opposition; and (B) the movant’s attorney certifies in writing any efforts made to give notice and the reasons why it should not be required. (2) Contents; Expiration. Every temporary restraining order issued with- out notice must state the date and hour it was issued; describe the injury and state why it is irreparable; state why the order was issued without notice; and be promptly filed in the chancery court clerk’s office and entered in the record. The order expires at the time after entry — not to exceed 14 days — that the chancery court sets, unless before that time the chancery court, for good cause, extends it for a like period or the adverse party consents to a longer extension. The reasons for an extension must be entered in the record. (3) Expediting the Preliminary-Injunction Hearing. If the order is issued without notice, the motion for a preliminary injunction must be set for hearing at the earliest possible time, taking precedence over all other matters except hearings on older matters of the same character. At the hearing, the party who obtained the order must proceed with the motion; if the party does not, the chancery court must dissolve the order. (4) Motion to Dissolve. On 2 days’ notice to the party who obtained the order without notice--or on shorter notice set by the chancery court — the adverse party may appear and move to dissolve or modify the order. The chancery court must then hear and decide the motion as promptly as justice requires. Page: 83 Date: 04/24/26 Time: 15:40:57 Style Spec Used: WY_RULES Path: @psc3913.lexisnexis.com/eden_primary/primary/WY/WYCourtRulesRV_repvol/WY_CR_WRCPChCRule_01_PREVIEW_38_psc3786_001 83 CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES FOR CHANCERY COURT