How to Use go to court in a Sentence

go to court

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  • Brumlow pleaded not guilty, and had to go to court over and over again as the case was postponed.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Even with its many letters, Creel said, the company has never had to go to court over the phrase.
    Mead Gruver, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • In the past, that meant an officer had to go to court, or even meet a judge at a diner in the middle of the night if the case was urgent.
    Ryan Mac, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Trump would then go to court and have an initial appearance in front of a judge and hear about the charges filed against him in the indictment.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That has given Miller and others who want to challenge the committee the option to go to court to keep the records private, for now.
    Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The state and county can go to court to enforce non-relocation terms.
    Martin Z Braun, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • They are required to go to court once a month to talk to the judge, who knows every participant and stays up to speed on the details of their progress.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Gorka becomes the 16th person to go to court to challenge the House committee.
    Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Should an assault ban succeed, however, the gun lobby will go to court to fight it.
    Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Tedesco was discovered murdered the day he was supposed to go to court in a dispute with Catherine.
    CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Their cover story was that Casey White had to go to court for a mental health evaluation.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 23 May 2022
  • Will Gator Collective settle with Rashada or go to court?
    Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The opposition is vowing to go to court, and the president is promising to campaign for more changes to the electoral system.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Twitter can go to court, if necessary, to complete the deal or extract a $1 billion penalty from Musk.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 20 May 2022
  • Their concern is not about other investigations, but whether their case is ready to go to court, Howard said.
    Gary Fields, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Musk abandoned the deal in July, sparking a lawsuit from Twitter that is scheduled to go to court in Delaware in two weeks.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In either case, the law would allow a presidential candidate to go to court to force compliance with the law.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • After seeing Sean first go to court with his hair unkempt and a sweat suit, Lopez got him a dress suit, took him to the barber and advocated for him before the judge.
    Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2022
  • To remove any restrictions, museum officials need to contact the donor, or go to court if the donor is deceased.
    Daniel Grant, WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • Reports indicate he and his wife of 17 years had been scheduled to go to court to finalize their divorce the day after the shooting occurred.
    Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Sometimes, according to the indictment, high-ranking gang members would go to court and pull records, looking for names to see who may be talking to police.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Even during that season, it was filled with adversity with Crump having to go to court to get his job back after Desert Vista fired him midseason.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022
  • And after court on June 27, Holder was beaten up after returning to jail, leaving him unable to go to court the following day.
    Vulture, 6 July 2022
  • In addition to having surgery to help regain the use of her arm and hand, she was supposed to go to court to testify against McIntosh in his domestic violence case.
    Heather Buckner, Good Housekeeping, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Now Kenyans wait to see whether Odinga will again go to court to contest the election results in a country crucial to regional stability.
    Cara Anna, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Albritton wound up having to go to court to regain possession of her phalli from Zappa’s legal partner, Herb Cohen, in 1993.
    Vulture, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Ferguson descended into a panic, missing work to go to court that morning to try to figure out where her children were being held.
    Eli Hager, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • In most other counties, the number of kids locked up in detention and the amount of cases that go to court for official adjudication are far fewer, Espinosa said.
    Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Your title insurance policy will cover the cost of fixing the problem, including paying for the lawyers who go to court for you when necessary to resolve the issue.
    Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Fox has a similar lawsuit looming with another voting machine company, Smartmatic, but no date has been set and the case might not go to court for a couple of years.
    Mae Anderson, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023

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