How to Use out of court in a Sentence

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  • The suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Fox News had attempted to get the defamation case thrown out of court.
    Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Belzer sued Hogan for $5 million and settled out of court.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Belzer injured his head and later sued Hogan and settled out of court.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016.
    Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the allegations were never proven.
    WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Sheen and Lorre and Warner Bros. settled the lawsuit out of court later that year, with the actor getting $25 million.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sheeran settled the case out of court for an unspecified sum.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The suit was reportedly settled out of court four years later.
    Hannah Malach, ELLE, 5 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those lawsuits were resolved out of court, his attorney Tim Danson said.
    Ben Sumner, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Though the lawsuit was settled out of court in 1981, Arneson and Gygax never fully reconciled.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Behind the scenes, he’s been working with Timbaland to retool their Verzuz series, which went quiet after a lawsuit against their partner Triller which was eventually settled out of court.
    William E. Ketchum Iii, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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