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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

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

It means training dollars go to docket management and evidence law, not to programming on contested social or political questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

And, of course, our Alabama docket had never been more jammed or demanding.

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

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

It’s essentially a legal slap on the wrist, but it’s rarely used because district court judges are typically given a lot of leeway to run their dockets and appellate courts are loath to get involved.

From Slate ● May 15, 2024

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

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

District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in a ruling that was docketed Friday.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

Almost immediately, the decision was appealed to the Supreme Court, and the justices on Monday docketed more than 10 emergency applications to stop the ruling.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

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

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

“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

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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