docket
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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
Its control over its docket, the building it sits in, all these things.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
By Monday morning, the court’s public docket showed the government had dropped the charges against all three and their cases had been closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
His was the last case on the docket, and by the time they got to him, it was dark outside.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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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
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
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
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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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
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
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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Alexander’s office said that led to the docketing of “what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
“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
At the hearing, with uncertainty about when Mr. Bankman-Fried would leave the Bahamas, the government asked Judge Abrams to temporarily seal the transcript of Ms. Ellison’s plea and delay its public docketing.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
There were two clerks—three, if you count Aloysius, the boy—but to Mrs. Brandeis belonged the privilege of docketing you first.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
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