docket
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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
As of Monday, the court’s public docket showed the government had dropped all three cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Congress should address the shadow docket in three ways.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 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
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
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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
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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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
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the court rejected their primary theory: that providers could sue state court judges and clerks to prevent the docketing of S.B.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2021
Left to himself Richard Calmady crossed to the writing-table, swung himself up into the revolving-chair, and remained there sorting and docketing papers far into the night.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
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