How to Use court order in a Sentence

court order

noun
  • The town is under court order to fix the problem.
  • He is barred by court order from entering the building.
  • He received a court order barring him from entering the building.
  • The goal, Alvarez said, is to have a court order a new election.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 8 June 2021
  • But at least twice in the last week, the city has violated that court order.
    Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In 2020, Maryland passed a law barring the use of stingrays without a court order.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Hochul agreed, likened Trump to a king, and said the toll would remain in effect absent a court order.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • In response to the court order, the government pushed back the deadline from Thursday to through the end of Monday.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the move a clear defiance of a court order and a delay tactic.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • No further changes were needed to comply with the court order, Carmichael said.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
  • When a person fails to abide by a court order to pay fees to the other party, that person would be required to pay the costs of the fees.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Yet nearly two years later, there is no court order to fix the problem.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • So much so that Bram Stoker’s heirs got a court order to have the movie’s copies destroyed, yet some copies survived.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2024
  • And the lack of a warrant or a court order is what has lawmakers of both parties worried.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • And in Louisiana, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court order for new maps.
    Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Masimo sued the startup and won a court order blocking it from selling the product.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The group is seeking a court order that would require the county to adopt a new voting district map.
    Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
  • Both Penzone and Arpaio were found to be in civil contempt for failing to comply with the court orders.
    The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Parscale complied with a court order to turn in his firearms and was not charged in connection with the incident.
    Garance Burke, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • The family has viewed short clips of body camera footage, but the videos have not been released publicly due to a court order.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021
  • The shooter was her estranged husband, Cedric, who was under a court order to stay away from Ms. Glenn.
    Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The footage, which showed Chauvin placing his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was released by a court order.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The news outlet, which did not name the mom or child, spoke to both of them and a neighbor who allegedly witnessed a Feb. 2 encounter that spurred the court order.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
  • The phrase, which translates roughly as ‘awesome’ or ‘wicked,’ is now protected by the court order.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • If the person is under a court order to attend the program and leaves before the program is over, the provider must notify the court.
    Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
  • And Orbach is seeking a court order to make sure the sale doesn't occur until those rights are honored.
    Jeff Day and Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • It has been given two months to come up with a report, according to a court order on Thursday.
    Weilun Soon, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Arizona has a pre-statehood law that bans all abortions, but it’s been blocked by a court order for nearly 50 years.
    Wired, 24 July 2022
  • The court order for the freeze has since been rescinded, and the startups have gone on a marketing offensive.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The timing of Lopez Gomez’s arrest, first reported by the Florida Phoenix, raises questions about whether the court order was disobeyed.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025

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