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docket

[dok-it] / ˈdɒk ɪt /


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Kingdom, the administration has asked the court, on the emergency docket, to lift an injunction currently preventing it from implementing policies that seek to deprive trans prisoners of much-needed healthcare and social accommodations.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything for the past twenty years docketed and outlined and complete.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

The results of withdrawal are as important as the results of allocation, and the necessity for the correct docketing of all groups of folklore is thus at once illustrated.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme


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