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How to use the word docket in a Sentence?

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The catchy and sinister term ‘shadow docket’ has been used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways… This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.

Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Needless to say, I am honored, but let me be clear : If I am nominated, I, like every other district judge who's been considered for elevation to the circuit, will continue to do my day job, which means presiding over this trial through completion and handling the literally hundreds of other civil and criminal matters on my docket.

Judge Alison J. Nathan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In all these ways, the majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow docket decision-making — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.

Elena Kagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Complaints that Court ruled on Texas law in ‘shadow docket’ can't be taken seriously, as it's abortion providers who pressed for immediate action (after waiting 2-1/2 months to file motion for preliminary injunction), abortion providers failed to meet their burden on the ‘complex and novel antecedent procedural questions’ that their *pre-enforcement* challenge presents.

Ed Whelan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At a time when public confidence in government institutions has greatly eroded, we must examine not just the constitutional impact of allowing the Texas law to take effect, but also the conservative Court's abuse of the shadow docket.

Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Although this case is abortion-related, the plaintiffs' challenge was that the law violated the free speech rights of the doctors, as opposed to the abortion rights of the patients, in that regard, although many find the Kentucky law offensive, it doesn't implicate the same fundamental questions about the continuing scope of the right to choose that the justices identified in Roe as other cases already on the court's docket this term and coming down the pipeline.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are ready, we'll have staff here till 1 a.m. If we have to do a docket at 10:30 at night, we'll do it.

Ed Ferenc

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Should we have obtained a billion-dollar verdict in the first trial, we would still be working on ways to resolve the entire docket, quickly and efficiently.

Robert Hilliard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The docket is not the place for statements, these type of statements, to the extent it's appropriate, could have been made in open court. Witnesses could have been cross-examined.

Judge Christopher Sontchi on Thursday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is an area of the court's docket we have been pushing and trying to encourage the court to push back the worst abuses of the class action tool.

Kate Comerford Todd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You'll probably look for action very soon after the docket closes (on July 17).

Mark Rosekind

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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