docket
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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
Congress should address the shadow docket in three ways.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 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
There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton’s coal yard on the Dock Road.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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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
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
Miami and Orlando had two of the largest dockets last year for cases of migrants placed in removal proceedings, with the courts in Florida seeing concentrations of Cubans and Venezuelans.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Its policy statement is described as “guidance,” not a mandate. it acknowledges the district courts’ “authority and discretion” to manage their dockets as they see fit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
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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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
He also invited them to submit docketed letters ahead of time proposing “agenda items for discussion.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 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
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
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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
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
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
It's impossible that you could keep yourself from docketing the evidence and arranging it and absorbing it.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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