docket
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Its control over its docket, the building it sits in, all these things.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 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 conviction stemmed from an incident that took place as Dugan presided over a docket that included the criminal case of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was facing three domestic assault charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mam says ’tis all right for her to be begging at the St.Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can’t stick a few spuds in his pocket.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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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
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
Judicial dockets are finite, and public needs are great.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024
Its policy statement is described as “guidance,” not a mandate. it acknowledges the district courts’ “authority and discretion” to manage their dockets as they see fit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
It’s their job to stack the bags on the float while Mr. Hannon goes to the office for the delivery dockets.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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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
Almost immediately, the decision was appealed to the Supreme Court, and the justices on Monday docketed more than 10 emergency applications to stop the ruling.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
The pigeon-holes were docketed, “letters-unanswered,” “letter-to-keep,” “household,” “estate,” “menus,” “miscellaneous,” “addresses”: each ticket written in that same scrawling pointed hand that I knew already.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
Hilton, a former Arlington County prosecutor and Reagan appointee, recognized the docketing error at his first hearing on the criminal case in 2021 and ordered it refiled correctly.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
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
In New York, uploaded petitions sat, in a digital void, for months on end without docketing.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2021
Temple Bramleigh was a secretary of legation, and lived to see himself—in the uniformity of his manuscript, the precision of his docketing, and the exactness of his sealing wax—the pet of "the Office."
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
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