small-claims court
noun
: a special court intended to simplify and expedite the handling of small claims on debts
Examples of small-claims court in a Sentence
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The case was originally brought to a small-claims court in April.
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Canada’s small-claims court has forced Air Canada to honor the policy its customer-services AI chatbot made up when dealing with a grieving passenger.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
Some have taken the company to court, including small-claims court, to press their cases.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
Ashanti had represented his wife in small-claims court in a dispute with her former employer, a nonprofit wholly owned by a city agency — a clear conflict of interest.
—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2022
Beal and Thompson-Beal in 2013 went on the Judge Mathis TV show to settle a small-claims court lawsuit the mother filed against her daughter, according to Cleveland Municipal Court records.
—Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021
So Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, a service that helps people fight parking tickets and navigate small-claims court, has built an automated way to file.
—NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
And contrary to the goal of small-claims court providing a quick legal decision, some cases can go on for years, the consumer advocacy group found.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2020
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Canada’s small-claims court has forced Air Canada to honor the policy its customer-services AI chatbot made up when dealing with a grieving passenger.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
Some have taken the company to court, including small-claims court, to press their cases.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
Ashanti had represented his wife in small-claims court in a dispute with her former employer, a nonprofit wholly owned by a city agency — a clear conflict of interest.
—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2022
Beal and Thompson-Beal in 2013 went on the Judge Mathis TV show to settle a small-claims court lawsuit the mother filed against her daughter, according to Cleveland Municipal Court records.
—Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021
So Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, a service that helps people fight parking tickets and navigate small-claims court, has built an automated way to file.
—NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
And contrary to the goal of small-claims court providing a quick legal decision, some cases can go on for years, the consumer advocacy group found.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2020
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“Small-claims court.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small-claims%20court. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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