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docket

[dok-it] / ˈdɒk ɪt /


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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

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

When a newly confirmed district judge takes the bench, the FJC teaches him how to manage a docket, handle complex evidence and run a courtroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

No fancy items when you bring the docket from the St.Vincent de Paul.

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

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

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

Any decision on a litigant’s wish to seal some portion of a civil proceeding should be preceded by a publicly docketed hearing where opposing arguments can be heard and weighed.

From Washington Post Dec. 21, 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

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

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

In New York, uploaded petitions sat, in a digital void, for months on end without docketing.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2021

He resumed his reading and docketing, by the light of the little lamp which had just subserved the purposes of a spy.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




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