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WHERE A STATUTE, HERE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW 40-B, PRESCRIBES A MONETARY REMEDY, AN INJUNCTION IS NOT AVAILABLE (FIRST DEPT).

​The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction in this Civil Rights Law 40-b action should not have been granted because the remedy is statutory. Civil Rights Law 40-b prohibits an entertainment venue from denying entry to a person who has a ticket:

… [I]t was improper for the motion court to issue a preliminary injunction. As Civil Rights Law § 41 prescribes a monetary remedy for violations of Civil Rights Law § 40-b, plaintiffs are limited to that remedy (see Woollcott v Shubert , 169 App Div 194, 197 [1st Dept 1915] [“The general rule is that where a statute creates a right and prescribes a remedy for its violation that remedy is exclusive and neither an action for damages nor for an injunction can be maintained”] …). Even if injunctive relief were available, the existence of a statutory damages remedy would undermine plaintiffs’ claims of irreparable harm … . Hutcher v Madison Sq. Garden Entertainment Corp., 2023 NY Slip Op 01646, First Dept 3-28-23

Practice Point: Here the statute, Civil Rights Law 40-b, prescribed a monetary remedy for a violation. Therefore Supreme Court should not have granted plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction.

 

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