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docket

[dok-it] / ˈdɒk ɪt /


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A critical climate case is on the docket and the justice’s record on the death penalty was on full display with the botched execution of Christa Pike; they discuss it all.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

It landed on the public docket Wednesday, after it originally was filed under seal on Sept. 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The video evidence contradicting his claim was only made available, confidentially, to the court a year later - and placed on the public docket on 4 September this year.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Central bank decisions from New Zealand and Malaysia are also on the docket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The man in the middle says he’s giving Mam a docket to get a week’s groceries at McGrath’s shop on Parnell Street.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

ICE agents often have printouts with names and pictures of petitioners they want to detain, but they are consistently unable to accurately match them with names on the court dockets.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 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

With more than 40 lawsuits on court dockets around the country, he told me, “it’s too early to declare that either side is going to win the ultimate battle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

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

But the clerk’s office mistakenly docketed the manslaughter case as a civil matter, presumed it was related to the existing lawsuit and reassigned it to Hilton.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023

He also invited them to submit docketed letters ahead of time proposing “agenda items for discussion.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

I thought of the writing-desk in the morning-room, the docketed pigeon-holes all marked in ink by that slanting pointed hand.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

“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

I found myself automatically docketing and labelling each man as he was introduced to me, by the run of his features and by the first words that he spoke.

From The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford


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