The following excerpt is from Pac. Radiation Oncology, LLC v. Doe, 810 F.3d 631 (9th Cir. 2015):
We review a district court's grant or denial of a preliminary injunction for an abuse of discretion. Pimentel v. Dreyfus, 670 F.3d 1096, 1105 (9th Cir.2012). We employ a two part test: first, determining whether the trial court identified the correct legal rule to apply to the requested relief and second, determining whether the court's application of that rule was illogical, implausible, or without support from inferences that may be drawn from facts in the record. Id. "A decision based on an erroneous legal standard or a clearly erroneous finding of fact amounts to an abuse of discretion." Id.
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