Best legal arguments for a TRO

I just want my blog back. Oh, and to beat Penn State by 40.

To my legal mind, the strongest basis for an injunction is to litigate nos. 4, 2, and 2

Is there a typo there?

Thanks for this analysis, good stuff.

It just comes down to the question of whether to preserve the status quo given the possibility of irreparable harm and likelihood of success on the merits. 

I don't understand how you can say sign stealing is unsafe and think of the children when done by attending a game in person or recording it, but it's fine if it happens all the other times.  How much of a sanctimonious dumbfuck do you have to be to assert that with a straight face?

His whole paragraph about the safety of players is laughable. Has he ever, I mean EVER, watched a football game? If you want to hurt someone, you just hurt them. Watch ANY Michigan State game. Did that douchebag who speared McGregor need to know the play beforehand? Did Krump and the tunnel 8 need to know the play beforehand to attack 2 of our players in the tunnel? Pettiti is a coward and an imbecile.

I am not a lawyer but I agree what OP says. 

6.  Bad faith by Pettiti.  You don't pull this timing BS unless you are also worried about the merits of your case.

NY wolve OG = exactly.  It was also stated as a cost cutting move when first implemented.

The timing of the suspension is the best angle (among many good angles) for UM to get it's TRO, provided W&C found a judge tonight...

The B1G issues it's suspension on a federal holiday, while the Michigan players and staff are quite literally on a plane to Pennsylvania, the evening before the football program's biggest game of the season.  This is insane.  No judge is going to see this as a coincidence.  Petitti purposely picked a date and time that would do the greatest harm to UM's chances of successfully defending itself in a court of law.  Jesus.  I cant think of a greater reason for a judge to grant the TRO.

Unwatchable or useless video would be proof that there was an attempt to violate the rule. I don't believe that anyone has proven that these videos contained material that is not readily available to the public.  And since it was stored on a server without a password then that qualifies as public information.

I don't think the Big 10 has proven #1 as Michigan says it hasn't seen all the evidence.

My argument rests with the idea that Ric Flair can respond with double crotch chops while giving a bug-eyed whoooooo! 

TRO's are highly difficult to obtain, easier in state court but assume its heading to fed court after the weekend.

Part of the legal argument needs to include the public interest. They will have to demonstrate to the court why it requires this extraordinary remedy. This case indirectly involves millions of people who otherwise have no normal experience with the courts and justice but who have a vested interest in this adjudication. In that respect, it is an opportunity for justice to reach millions, to help bring our country together in an increasingly polarized environment and in an understanding that one of our founding tenants is the application of due process; it is the opposite of mob rule. If they simply speak to the arguments they run the real risk that this is consolidated in fed court early next week, overruling the state court but agreeing to hear the injunction, with a briefing in 21 days. 

The one silver lining of the b1g doing this on a friday afternoon of a fed holiday is that they wont be able to ask to move it to federal court before the game on Saturday. 

UM fans should attend other games and record the teams signs and post them on MGoBlog.  

I would say the fact that he left in the part about “player safety” after Michigan had provided evidence that other schools had Michigan’s signs can be used to demonstrate that his actions were capricious and in bad faith. 

It shows clearly that Pettiti treats different examples of the same threat to player safety differently, proving bias.