docket
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The conviction stemmed from an incident that took place as Dugan presided over a docket that included the criminal case of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was facing three domestic assault charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Central bank decisions from New Zealand and Malaysia are also on the docket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Roberts once signed on to a Kagan dissent that assailed the shadow docket.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
The appeals to the emergency docket have long outnumbered those to the merits docket, but most are procedural requests or requests to stay execution for capital offenses.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
He gives her a docket for groceries at McGrath’s shop and another one for the butcher.
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
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 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
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The appeals court on Monday docketed the appeals filed by Trump and eight others and said that “if oral argument is requested and granted” it is tentatively scheduled for Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
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
But the clerk’s office mistakenly docketed the manslaughter case as a civil matter, presumed it was related to the existing lawsuit and reassigned it to Hilton.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 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
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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
At the hearing, with uncertainty about when Mr. Bankman-Fried would leave the Bahamas, the government asked Judge Abrams to temporarily seal the transcript of Ms. Ellison’s plea and delay its public docketing.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
She has her pen in her hand, and is docketing her visiting list.
From Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.
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