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docket

[dok-it] / ˈdɒk ɪt /


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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

As of Monday, the court’s public docket showed the government had dropped all three cases.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Teaching and increased fund-raising responsibilities got piled on top of my bulging litigation docket, but somehow things progressed.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

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

The National Labor Relations Board has docketed 698 open or settled unfair labor practice charges against the company, its subsidiary and the law firm representing it.

From Seattle Times Dec. 13, 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

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

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

“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

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

At last he seemed to have made-up his mind to something; and applied himself quietly and diligently to arranging papers, and docketing some and burning others.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




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