docket
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We saw in that shadow docket order from last year, the court said, We think the Federal Reserve is different because of reasons.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
As of Monday, the court’s public docket showed the government had dropped all three cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Congress should address the shadow docket in three ways.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
The appeals to the emergency docket have long outnumbered those to the merits docket, but most are procedural requests or requests to stay execution for capital offenses.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
This lady’s grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn’t rationalize taking on his case.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Meanwhile, the internet has destroyed the local newspapers that once could send reporters into county courts to check the dockets.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Conversely, his prosecutors may just dismiss more cases to clear them off their dockets.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Since the 1970s, immigration judges have administratively closed deportation proceedings in order to ease the massive backlog on their dockets and prioritize more urgent cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
It would be the disbandment of this investigative unit by Mr Mchunu that led to Gen Mkhwanazi's explosive briefing a fortnight ago, complaining that 121 case dockets were "gathering dust" at the national police headquarters.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Mam gets the relief and the food dockets till someone informs on her and she’s cut off from the Dispensary.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Then, earlier this month, an en banc panel of 9th Circuit judges again put the law on pause, and the state asked the justices to intervene in a filing officially docketed Monday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
Court records show that Trump's appeal has been docketed and assigned a case number.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2023
A court clerk showed the indictments to Fulton County District Court Judge Robert McBurney, who briefly reviewed the papers and directed them to be docketed.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
The existence of the Jan. 25 court order preventing the Justice Department from accessing the Pennsylvania Republican’s phone was publicly docketed, but its subject matter remains under seal.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2023
Everything for the past twenty years docketed and outlined and complete.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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“Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
But as the session advanced, the House did not make any progress on their own proposed bills, never docketing the bills for committee and letting them die.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the court rejected their primary theory: that providers could sue state court judges and clerks to prevent the docketing of S.B.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2021
A calendaring notice filed in the court’s electronic docketing system did not specify charges or whether Chansley had entered a plea deal with prosecutors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Yet their existence dates back for many years, and in this age of filing and docketing they must by now provide a regular gold-mine for the study of human psychology.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
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