(a) Temporary Restraining Order; Notice; Hearing; Duration.
A temporary restraining order may be granted without written or oral
notice to the adverse party or his attorney only if it clearly appears
from specific facts shown by affidavit or by the verified complaint that
immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the
applicant before the adverse party or his attorney can be heard in
opposition. Every temporary restraining order granted without notice
shall be indorsed with the date and hour of issuance; shall be filed
forthwith in the clerk's office and entered of record; and shall expire
by its terms within such time after entry, not to exceed 10 days, as the
court fixes, unless within the time so fixed the order, for good cause
shown, is extended for a like period or unless the party against whom
the order is directed consents that it may be extended for a longer
period. In case a temporary restraining order is granted without notice,
the application for a preliminary injunction shall be set down for
hearing at the earliest possible time, and in any event within 10 days,
and takes precedence of all matters except older matters of the same
character; and when the matter comes on for hearing the party who
obtained the temporary restraining order shall proceed with the
application for a preliminary injunction and, if he does not do so, the
court shall dissolve the temporary restraining order. On 2 days' notice
to the party who obtained the temporary restraining order without notice
or on such shorter notice to that party as the court may prescribe, the
adverse party may appear and move its dissolution or modification and
in that event the court shall proceed to hear and determine such motion
as expeditiously as the ends of justice require.
(b) Preliminary Injunction.
(b) Preliminary Injunction.
(1) Notice. No preliminary injunction shall be issued without notice to the adverse party.
(2) Consolidation of Hearing With Trial on Merits.
Before or after the commencement of the hearing of an application for a
preliminary injunction, the court may order the trial of the action on
the merits to be advanced and consolidated with the hearing of the
application. This subdivision (b)(2) shall be so construed and applied
as to save to the parties any rights they may have to trial by jury.
(c) Security.
Unless the court, for good cause shown, shall otherwise order, no
restraining order or preliminary injunction shall issue except upon the
giving of security by the applicant, in such sum as the court deems
proper, for the payment of such costs and damages as may be incurred or
suffered by any party who is found to have been wrongfully enjoined or
restrained. No such security shall be required of the United States or
of the Commonwealth or of a political subdivision of the Commonwealth or
of any officer or agency of any of them.