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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

Central bank decisions from New Zealand and Malaysia are also on the docket.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

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

ICE agents often have printouts with names and pictures of petitioners they want to detain, but they are consistently unable to accurately match them with names on the court dockets.

From Slate Oct. 10, 2025

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 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

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

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

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

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

In New York, uploaded petitions sat, in a digital void, for months on end without docketing.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2021

Temple Bramleigh was a secretary of legation, and lived to see himself—in the uniformity of his manuscript, the precision of his docketing, and the exactness of his sealing wax—the pet of "the Office."

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever




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