Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions

An application for a temporary restraining order or for a preliminary injunction shall be made in a document separate from the complaint. An application for a temporary restraining order shall be accompanied by a certificate of the applicant's attorney, or by an affidavit, a declaration in compliance with 28 U.S.C. § 1746, or by other proof satisfactory to the court, stating: (a) that actual notice of the time of making the application, and copies of all pleadings and other papers filed in the action to date or to be presented to the court at the hearing, have been furnished to the adverse party's attorney, if known, otherwise to the adverse party; or (b) the efforts made by the applicant to give such notice and furnish such copies. Except in an emergency, the court will not consider an ex parte application for a temporary restraining order.