Arkansas Department of Education Jacob Oliva

Summary

The court reversed the circuit court's order granting a temporary restraining order, vacated the order, and remanded. It held that the appellees failed to establish irreparable harm, an indispensable prerequisite to injunctive relief, because their alleged injuries were compensable by damages, speculative, unsupported by a legal right, or unaffected by the absence of an injunction. The court declined to reach the political-question, sovereign-immunity, emergency-clause-validity, and facial-validity arguments because doing so would have been advisory.