But on Wednesday, Judge Forrest said that her order still stood — and that, contrary to the government's narrow interpretation of it, her injunction applied broadly and not just to the named plaintiffs.
"There is a need for Muslim women candidates to enter this campaign to confront the corrupted women," he wrote, arguing that the only Koranic injunction applied to a woman running an entire nation.
If this injunction applied to all women, she says, then no woman would be permitted to speak.
When she came across the biblical passage, "and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee," she was distraught over what appeared to be divine sanction of women's subjugation, but then reasoned that the injunction applied only to wives.
Judge Griesa was asked to clarify how the injunctions' payment formula was intended to work, and how the injunctions applied to third parties like intermediary banks.
Analogous injunctions apply, mutandis mutatis, to the modes and rhythms in music and to painting.
Although the injunction only applies to the plaintiffs, he makes it clear that almost any American with a Verizon account, or maybe just a phone, could sue, too, which would effectively end the program.
Her victory resulted in an injunction that applies only to her.
This will require the appellate court to decide whether this injunction should apply to third parties, an issue the judges already seemed to be uneasy with in their prior opinion.
The network said the preliminary injunction would apply across the country, with the exception of New York, Connecticut and Vermont, where the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld Aereo's business model in the face of lawsuits from the broadcasters.
