Superior Court Judge of Wake County, Donald W. Stephens, temporarily halts permits pending review of how the states mining and Energy Commission was formed.
Environmental groups have argued that controversial commission was formed in violation of the state constitution.
The injunction will temporarily stop the commission form processing or accepting permit applications for hydraulic fracturing drilling units.
There is already another separate case that depends on other legal questions that are similar that will be ruled on by the court, later this summer, as to how state panels are formed.
The Southern Environmental Law Center said that the ruling will stop harm to the States environment from fracking