docket
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Its control over its docket, the building it sits in, all these things.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Congress should address the shadow docket in three ways.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Twitter attorneys argued that court rules require that five business days lapse before a public version of Musk’s filing is docketed.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
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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“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
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
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
“This approach is compatible with the docketing requirements of the Clean Air Act,” Schiermeyer wrote.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2020
Another advantage from Gertrude’s visit was that Philip was able to finish his text, thanks to her industrious docketing and indexing and generally fussing about in his study.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
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