docket
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During the court’s most recent term, they voted together in 94 percent of cases on the merits docket.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
By Monday morning, the court’s public docket showed the government had dropped the charges against all three and their cases had been closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In addition to the dozens of cases already on our juvenile docket, we were quickly overwhelmed.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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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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
Any decision on a litigant’s wish to seal some portion of a civil proceeding should be preceded by a publicly docketed hearing where opposing arguments can be heard and weighed.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 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
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
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
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
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
There were two clerks—three, if you count Aloysius, the boy—but to Mrs. Brandeis belonged the privilege of docketing you first.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
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