How to Use traffic court in a Sentence

traffic court

noun
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  • She has to be in traffic court this morning.
  • In a perfect world, there would be no need for traffic court.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • Those charges still are pending in traffic court, records show.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2021
  • Does that go for traffic court judges, small claims judges, petty-theft judges?
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The main Vista courthouse — not including the traffic court annex — is made up of two sides.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • During a traffic court session in Ferguson in mid-July, the line stretched out the door.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The move marks the first time that all courts in the Marion County system, from criminal courts to traffic court, will be housed in the same building.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The court is now on the hunt to hire more hearing officers to preside over more than 6,000 civil traffic court cases a year.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • Schooling was present Monday morning for a traffic court video call.
    — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This specific statute is not one that comes up often by itself in traffic court.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In Ferguson, the dreary routine of traffic court played out over two and a half hours — 90 minutes longer than was scheduled.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Even outside of his job and his chutzpah in traffic court, Kriv’s history is notable.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 3 June 2023
  • Most mornings hundreds of people go to the courthouse for misdemeanor and traffic court.
    — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
  • Bottone planned to fight the ticket during a July 20 traffic court hearing, but it was postponed.
    — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The traffic court run by the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit has thousands of cases to hear and only 20 people to hear them.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • The Sheriff’s Office sends information from those forms to the traffic court, which uploads the data into its system, said Carey Daste, in-house counsel for the clerk of court.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Richardson, a Gainesville native, is scheduled to appear in traffic court on May 25 for a mandatory hearing of going at least 30 mph over the speed limit.
    — Staff Report, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The protracted nuisance of having to deal with the police officer, then the traffic court, and then the insurance company.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 July 2018
  • Jim Wooten, the judge who presided over traffic court in the troubled town of Brookside, has been suspended from practicing law in Alabama.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Even without a score for traffic court cases, Hillsboro earned the top score for its prodigious ticketing and the money collected.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The Staten Island native appeared in traffic court several months later, where he was ordered to pay $114 in fines.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • In other cases, officers were encouraged not to show up to testify at traffic court, or to feign amnesia on the stand.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Pasos said an important question is whether an offense would be handled by the traffic court like a ticket or by the city attorney’s office.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Barker was also served with a Livingston County warrant for failing to appear in traffic court on an undisclosed charge, police said.
    — Daily Southtown Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The heroin was there in her purse as investigators questioned the 26-year-old about financial discrepancies in her work as a deputy clerk at night traffic court.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Those things don’t necessarily have to be off-the-charts ostentatious or seemingly designed to land you in traffic court.
    — Patrick George, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The smaller building, known as Jefferson Station, would hold high-volume courtrooms, like traffic court, as well as a child-care center for people with court business.
    — oregonlive.com, 4 June 2019
  • If neither the excuse nor the request for a warning is effective, a motorist can always contest the violation in traffic court.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • After waiting in line at the monthly traffic court, Kierstan Pointer, a single mom who sped through town, simply handed over a wad of crumpled $20 bills and lamented her mistake.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • One parent called me in a panic when her 20 year-old son refused to answer a summons to a local traffic court, resulting from three unpaid speeding tickets.
    — Mark McConville, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2020

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