small claims court
- A state court for resolving disputes involving small sums of money, typically between $2,000 and $10,000, depending on the state, where participants usually represent themselves without lawyers and present their cases in simple language
- He decided to take his neighbor to small claims court after their disagreement over the damaged fence could not be resolved.
- The contractor failed to complete the job as agreed, so I took him to small claims court.
- When her landlord refused to return her security deposit, she sought justice through the small claims court.
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