Comment by abduhl
1 year ago
Specific performance is a contractual remedy. It is rarely granted because contracts are usually about business arrangements, and you can solve most of those problems with money. So for contracts the usual remedy is monetary damages.
Courts are more than able to order parties to do things without invoking specific performance via injunctive relief, which you’ll see from the complaint is what is being sought by the plaintiffs.
Injunctive relief requires that you show that unless the court provides this relief the harm is irreparable. I guess we'll see.
This is true of almost all equitable remedies - you have to show that money won’t make you whole. Luckily the bar for that is much lower than for contractual disputes, especially disputes like this where an ongoing violation of someone’s statutory rights is allegedly happening.