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  • We were the first case on the docket.†   (source)
  • The clerk read the docket, the suspect rose.†   (source)
  • Or congested dockets.†   (source)
  • It would push the whole docket back.†   (source)
  • I've got a heavy docket today.†   (source)
  • Even when these have been tested and thrown out as illegal by superior courts, they have in some instances continued to be enforced because "they haven't taken them off the dockets.†   (source)
  • Young fellow, call the docket.†   (source)
  • "Well, Mr. Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?" || "To remember it--to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it."   (source)
  • The court is busy clearing the docket before the current term ends.
  • The proposal is on Thursday's docket.
  • Without plea bargaining, there would be no hope of keeping up with the docket.
  • The article summarizes this year's Supreme Court docket.
  • A bigger staff, bigger cases, and a bigger docket also sometimes meant bigger problems.†   (source)
  • But next on the docket was a subject that proved more contentious.†   (source)
  • He gives her a docket for groceries at McGrath's shop and another one for the butcher.†   (source)
  • In addition to the dozens of cases already on our juvenile docket, we were quickly overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Creagh gets his docket to see the doctor, the queue moves ahead and Mr. Kane is ready for Mam.†   (source)
  • The man says he'll give us a docket for a table, two chairs, and two beds.†   (source)
  • And, of course, our Alabama docket had never been more jammed or demanding.†   (source)
  • No fancy items when you bring the docket from the St.Vincent de Paul.†   (source)
  • No. I'm a friend helping this poor family with their first docket from the St. Vincent de Paul.†   (source)
  • She says to Nora, Do you have a docket, too?†   (source)
  • Mam wipes her face on the back of her sleeve and takes the docket.†   (source)
  • She gives Dad the docket for the coal down the Dock Road.†   (source)
  • The clerk glanced over her shoulder at the docket board.†   (source)
  • And I cannot help it that this court's docket is full," Judson said.†   (source)
  • Your name's on the docket as his lawyer."†   (source)
  • It was true: a case like this would be fast-tracked to the docket.†   (source)
  • With a near monopoly on the market, he controlled the docket and bullied the court clerks.†   (source)
  • Both were hunched over the docket book, shoulder to shoulder.†   (source)
  • Jake signed in and was given a document titled "Parole Hearings—Docket."†   (source)
  • Your name's on the docket as his lawyer."†   (source)
  • He was gaining strength and endurance and there was evidence of this in the flow of his docket.†   (source)
  • She combed the court dockets, looking for plaintiffs and defendants, winners and losers.†   (source)
  • I was worried about our funding and whether we had enough staff and resources to meet the demands of our expanding docket.†   (source)
  • Teaching and increased fund-raising responsibilities got piled on top of my bulging litigation docket, but somehow things progressed.†   (source)
  • Having a bigger staff with very talented people made meeting the new challenges created by our much broader docket seem possible.†   (source)
  • This lady's grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn't rationalize taking on his case.†   (source)
  • I suspect that Judge Norton had scheduled the final Rule 32 hearing in part because he wanted to get this contentious, complicated case off his docket and out of his court.†   (source)
  • My docket of new death penalty cases in Alabama meant I was working insane hours driving back and forth from Atlanta and simultaneously trying to resolve several prison condition cases I had filed in various Southern states.†   (source)
  • There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton's coal yard on the Dock Road.†   (source)
  • Mam says 'tis all right for her to be begging at the St.Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can't stick a few spuds in his pocket.†   (source)
  • The woman behind the counter is pleasant to Mam in her American coat till Mam shows the St. Vincent de Paul docket.†   (source)
  • Well, now, they're not on the docket.†   (source)
  • Here's your docket to Dr. Troy.†   (source)
  • Here's the docket to get him in.†   (source)
  • If Mam gets a docket for a new one at the St. Vincent de Paul the old shirt is promoted to towel and hangs damp on the chair for months or Mam might use bits of it to patch other shirts.†   (source)
  • A docket for the doctor, is it?†   (source)
  • They wear shawls and they're respectful to Mr. Coffey and Mr. Kane because if they're not they might be told go away and come back next week when it's this minute you need the public assistance or a docket to see the doctor.†   (source)
  • Mam gets the relief and the food dockets till someone informs on her and she's cut off from the Dispensary.†   (source)
  • It's their job to stack the bags on the float while Mr. Hannon goes to the office for the delivery dockets.†   (source)
  • "I don't know how long it's going to take to get a court to agree to that heart donation," the doctor said, "but Claire can't wait around for the docket to clear."†   (source)
  • After four days of hearings, he ruled in favor of Judson's decision, declaring that the case properly belonged in the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court for ultimate resolution.†   (source)
  • To be honest, Jordan had been just as shocked to see Cormier's name on the docket board as the prosecutor had been, but he wasn't about to tell Diana.†   (source)
  • She dumped her purse in chambers, shrugged into her robe, and took five minutes to drink her coffee and review the docket.†   (source)
  • By the time Diana reached the docket board to check which judge was sitting on the Houghton arraignment, Jordan McAfee was already standing there.†   (source)
  • She could cut through the clerk's office to her chambers, and if the planets were aligned, maybe even onto the bench without causing a delay in the docket.†   (source)
  • By the time she backed her car out of the garage, her head was already focused on the decision she had to write that afternoon; the number of arraignments the clerk would have stuffed onto her docket; the motions that would have fallen like shadows across her desk between Friday afternoon and this morning.†   (source)
  • In the center was one word: "Docket."†   (source)
  • She rearranged her docket so that she was home when Josie got there; she left legal briefs in the office instead of bringing them home to read on weekends; every night, over dinner, they talked-not just chatter, but real conversation: about why To Kill a Mockingbird might very well be the best book ever written; about how you could tell if you'd fallen in love; even about Josie's father.†   (source)
  • First on the docket was a man who'd served thirty-six years for a murder committed during a bank robbery.†   (source)
  • 'Here's your docket.†   (source)
  • The case officially known as In re Estate of Henry Seth Hubbard was barreling down the docket at record speed.†   (source)
  • She said, "This is a docket book from the 1920s, specifically August of 1927 through October of 1928."†   (source)
  • Plus, I told them I'd non-suit the case in Circuit Court, dismiss it, and then refile in Chancery Court where I pretty much control the docket and everything else.†   (source)
  • No fewer than nine lawyers gathered in the courtroom early Monday morning to formally kick off discovery in the case now known on the docket as In re Estate of Henry Seth Hubbard.†   (source)
  • Saw it on the docket, Simeon Lang.†   (source)
  • It took two to perform even the most mundane legal tasks: two to file papers in court; two to answer a docket call; two for an uncontested hearing; two to drive here and there; and, of course, two to jack up the billing and pad the file.†   (source)
  • But there is one thing you must never forget: the judgment docket book in the courthouse.†   (source)
  • The pigeon-holes were docketed, 'letters unanswered', 'letters-to-keep', 'household', 'estate', 'menus', 'miscellaneous', 'addresses'; each ticket written in that same scrawling pointed hand that I knew already.†   (source)
  • Its contents, I need hardly say, were all neatly docketed and pigeonholed so that he was able at once to lay his hand upon the paper he wanted.†   (source)
  • I thought of the writing-desk in the morning-room, the docketed pigeonholes all marked in ink by that slanting pointed hand.†   (source)
  • I thought of the docketed pigeon-hole in the desk in the morning-room, I pictured the stack upon stack of invitation cards, the long list of names, the addresses, and I could see a woman sitting there at the desk and putting a V beside the names she wanted, and reaching for the invitation cards, dipping her pen in the ink, writing upon them swift and sure in that long, slanting hand.†   (source)
  • They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red tape.†   (source)
  • The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this docket.†   (source)
  • The Rev. William Carey had prided himself on never destroying anything, and there were piles of correspondence dating back for fifty years and bundles upon bundles of neatly docketed bills.†   (source)
  • For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.†   (source)
  • The box of pawn tickets at his elbow had just been rifled and he took up idly one after another in his greasy fingers the blue and white dockets, scrawled and sanded and creased and bearing the name of the pledger as Daly or MacEvoy.†   (source)
  • I found myself automatically docketing and labelling each man as he was introduced to me, by the run of his features and by the first words that he spoke.†   (source)
  • It was covered with a mass of papers, all neatly tied and docketed, which looked like accounts and receipts arrayed with perfect method.†   (source)
  • When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle.†   (source)
  • Rawdon sat down in the study before the Baronet's table, set out with the orderly blue books and the letters, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets, the locked account-books, desks, and dispatch boxes, the Bible, the Quarterly Review, and the Court Guide, which all stood as if on parade awaiting the inspection of their chief.†   (source)
  • The docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed for the same day two short and simple cases.†   (source)
  • M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, like a busy man.†   (source)
  • M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:— "And what reply did you receive?"†   (source)
  • M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of police regulations.†   (source)
  • Etc. [13] Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him nearly as follows, etc. The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the expedient of applying to the king.†   (source)
  • Blazes Boylan at the counter wrote and pushed the docket to her.†   (source)
  • JOHN O'CONNELL: Burial docket letter number U. P. eightyfive thousand.†   (source)
  • The blond girl handed him a docket and pencil.†   (source)
  • There are, for example, the English words that have been extended or restricted in meaning, /e. g./, /docket/ (for court calendar), /betterment/ (for improvement to property), /collateral/ (for security), /crank/ (for fanatic), /jumper/ (for tunic), /tickler/ (for memorandum or reminder),[19] /carnival/ (in such phrases as /carnival of crime/), /scrape/ (for fight or difficulty),[20] /flurry/ (of snow, or in the market), /suspenders/, /diggings/ (for habitation) and /range/.†   (source)
  • Rewarded by smiles he fell back and spoke with Corny Kelleher, accepting the dockets given him, turning them over and scanning them as he walked.†   (source)
  • …by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903, balance in depositor's favour: 18/14/6 (eighteen pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, sterling), net personalty: certificate of possession of 900 pounds, Canadian 4 percent (inscribed) government stock (free of stamp duty): dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries' (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased: a local press cutting concerning change of name by deedpoll.†   (source)
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