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ABBOTT v. PEREZ
Opinion of the Court
reasonable detail . . . the act or acts restrained or required.” Rules 65(d)(1)(B), (C); see Brief for Appellees in
No. 17–586, at 27. But as explained in Gunn v. University
Comm. to End War in Viet Nam, 399 U. S. 383, 389, n. 4
(1970), we have never suggested that a failure to meet the
specificity requirements of Rule 65(d) would “deprive the
Court of jurisdiction under §1253.”
A contrary holding would be perverse. Rule 65(b) protects the party against which an injunction is issued by
requiring clear notice as to what that party must do or
refrain from doing. Where a vague injunction does not
comply with Rule 65(b), the aggrieved party has a particularly strong need for appellate review. It would be odd to
hold that there can be no appeal in such a circumstance.
For these reasons, we hold that we have jurisdiction
under §1253 to hear an appeal from an order that has
the same practical effect as one granting or denying an
injunction.
B
With these principles settled, we conclude that the
orders in these cases qualify as interlocutory injunctions
under §1253. The text of the orders and the context in
which they were issued make this clear.
The orders are unequivocal that the current legislative
plans “violate §2 and the Fourteenth Amendment” and
that these violations “must be remedied.” 274 F. Supp. 3d,
at 686; see also, e.g., 267 F. Supp. 3d, at 795 (“[V]iolations
found by this Court in its Order on [the State House plan]
now require a remedy”); ibid. (“In Bell County, the intentional discrimination previously found by the Court must
be remedied”); ibid. (“In Dallas County, the intentional
discrimination previously found by the Court must be
remedied”).
We do not suggest that this language alone is sufficient
to show that the orders had the practical effect of enjoin-