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
Congress should address the shadow docket in three ways.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
China’s data docket is light, with Monday’s loan prime-rate announcement the sole major event of note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
We were the first case on the docket.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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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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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
Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick held a quick teleconference Wednesday before agreeing with Twitter, directing that the public filing be docketed by 5 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
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
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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