--- title: "Injunction: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH" source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/injunction description: "Injunction: A court order to do or to stop something. The NAACP asked the federal court to halt the Southaven turbines while its suit ran. Chapter 9." --- # Injunction What does “Injunction” mean? InjunctionA court order to do or to stop something. The NAACP asked the federal court to halt the Southaven turbines while its suit ran. *Chapter 9.* From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy) ## Where the book uses it - [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9)Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money. ## Also discussed in - Dated test [Chapter 8, the mission layer](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2027-21) ## Sources that use it - Maryland Judiciary Case Search, Quantum Maryland L L C vs. Jessica Fitzwater, et al., Circuit Court for Frederick County, case C-10-CV-26-000874, case type “Injunction,” filed 8 October 2026 (the docket as read on 11 October 2026: the complaint, summonses, “Plt’s Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order” and a motion to expedite its hearing, no order entered and no hearing date; the complaint itself is cited in its own row). [In the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#md-casesearch-quantum-oct26) - *NAACP v. X.AI Corp.*, No. 3:26-cv-00074-DMB-JMV (N.D. Miss.), CourtListener docket, entries to 18 September 2026, and the documents of entries 114, 123, 124 and 125 (Mississippi amicus 1 July; DOJ amended filing 7 July; 24 August telephonic status conference; motions pending as of 26 August 2026; entry 54, 15 June 2026: “MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM by MZX Tech LLC, X.AI Corp.”, its memorandum at 55, opposed at 89 on 10 July and replied to at 100 on 24 July, unruled through the capture’s last filing of 8 September 2026 — the only order on the pending motions a briefing schedule of 1 July; entry 50, 12 June 2026: “ORDER denying without prejudice 20 Motion for Preliminary Injunction; granting 49 Unopposed Motion to Amend/Correct 20 Motion for Preliminary Injunction”, the amended motion filed the same day as entry 51; entry 123 (18 September 2026), the United States’ notice of appeal “from this Court’s August 24, 2026, constructive Order denying the United States’ amended motion for intervention and dismissal”; entry 125 (21 September 2026), its stay memorandum, recording that at the 24 August conference the court “intends to deny the United States’ motion for intervention and dismissal and intends to hold a hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in October”; entry 114 (24 August 2026), the conference’s minute entry: “Conference held. Parties to submit optional proposed October hearing dates by e-mail to chambers.”; entry 124 (21 September 2026), the United States’ motion to stay all proceedings pending appeal, which “requests entry of a written order by September 28” and records “Plaintiffs oppose this motion. Defendants consent to this motion.”; entries 126 and 127 (22 September 2026), the defendants’ response and memorandum in support of the stay; no order on any pending motion through entry 127 as the docket stood on 27 September 2026, before the court’s opinion and order of 19 October 2026, ECF 135, which the register carries on its own row; entry 125 also recording that “this Court stated that it will deny the United States’ amended motion for intervention and dismissal and deny Defendants’ motion to dismiss”, both known only from the government’s filings, the transcript of 24 August (entry 116) restricted until 24 November 2026 and the court’s own minute entry (114) asking only for October hearing dates). [In the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#naacp-docket) ## Related terms - [Southaven](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven) - [NAACP](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/naacp) - [Agreed order](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/agreed-order) - [Catalytic controls](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/catalytic-controls) - [Clean Air Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clean-air-act) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent) - [Evidentiary hearing](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidentiary-hearing) - [Mobile and temporary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mobile-and-temporary) - [Moot](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moot) - [Moratorium](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moratorium) - [Nitrogen oxides](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nitrogen-oxides) - [Nonroad engine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nonroad-engine) From the glossary of The AI Compute Race. - [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger) - [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests) - [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard) - [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases) - [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion) - [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory) - [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine) - [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion) - [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary) - [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people) - [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources) - [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes) - [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections) - [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1) - [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent) - [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties) *The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026. [About the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1)[Tell me when it is out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#notify)