How to Use out of court in a Sentence
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Fox News had attempted to get the defamation case thrown out of court.
—Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
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Belzer injured his head and later sued Hogan and settled out of court.
—Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 19 Feb. 2023
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Sheeran settled the case out of court for an unspecified sum.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
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The suit was reportedly settled out of court four years later.
—Hannah Malach, ELLE, 5 Mar. 2023
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The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the allegations were never proven.
—WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
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Most players in the city’s business world shake their heads in disbelief that this lawsuit hasn’t been settled out of court.
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
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Such accusations are difficult to prove and are often why such cases are settled out of court.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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Those lawsuits were resolved out of court, his attorney Tim Danson said.
—Ben Sumner, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
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Neither side had made serious efforts to settle out of court since Dominion filed the suit more than two years ago.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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Barry Morphew walks out of court with his daughters in 2022, no longer charged with the murder of his wife.
—CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
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While the terms of the deal have been publicly disclosed, the fact that it was settled out of court means that it cannot be cited as a judgement in other cases.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 June 2022
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The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, plus Bowie and members of Queen received songwriting credit.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
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Supporters were repeatedly warned to have decorum during the proceedings, some were thrown out of court, yet many returned each day.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
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The director has been sued multiple times since 1997, though all lawsuits have either been dropped or settled out of court.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2023
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Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016.
—Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
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This change accounts for the likelihood that the deal will close—either by Twitter winning in court this autumn, or by the two parties settling out of court.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2022
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Officers believe Chan swapped his wristband with another man, surnamed Lam, who had been granted bail in an assault case, and simply walked out of court.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
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Twitter has so far been successful in pushing most of these lawsuits out of court and into individual arbitration with the company.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
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Defamation suits usually get settled out of court, so this case provides a rare look at how a network functions — especially one as big and as polarizing as Fox.
—Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
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Those changes included encouraging more pretrial hearings and taking off the docket cases better decided out of court.
—Alicia A. Caldwell, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
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Those differences resulted in a lawsuit that was settled out of court, leaving Burkett with a producer credit on the film, but severing all other ties.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
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The federal judge overseeing the case sided with Mo’Nique, and in June 2022 the lawsuit was settled out of court.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
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Though the lawsuit was settled out of court in 1981, Arneson and Gygax never fully reconciled.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
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Assuming the Dominion case goes to trial next month instead of settling out of court—something that close watchers of the proceedings think is more and more likely—Fox risks a hefty financial burden.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
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However, Lee’s mother filed a negligence lawsuit against the film’s producers and director and the effects contractor that supplied the ammunition, which was settled out of court.
—Vulture, 14 Mar. 2023
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As in the Heckman case, Live Nation’s lawyers already have filed a motion in one of the Swift fans’ lawsuits contending the company can’t be sued because those customers already agreed to privately arbitrate claims out of court.
—Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2023
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