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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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024