California v. M & P Investments

MEMORANDUM **

These preliminary injunction appeals come to us for review under Ninth Circuit Rule 3-3. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a)(1), and we affirm.

We subject a district court’s order regarding preliminary injunctive relief only to limited review. Walzac v. EPL Prolong, Inc., 198 F.3d 725 , 730 (9th Cir.1999). Our review of an order regarding a preliminary injunction “is much more limited than review of an order involving a permanent injunction, where all conclusions of law are freely reviewable.” Id. A decision regarding a preliminary injunction is reviewed for abuse of discretion, which occurs only if the district court based its decision on either an erroneous legal standard or clearly erroneous factual findings. Id.

The district court did not abuse its discretion here. We therefore affirm the district court’s order of 12/31/02 denying a preliminary injunction which would require immediate remediation of indoor air contamination at certain properties, and the district court’s order of 3/31/03 which granted reconsideration and vacated a preliminary injunction entered on 12/31/02 which required defendants Guild Cleaners and Jack Alquist to implement…