14 If it were the practice of a Court of Appeals to screen the paid appeals on its docket for frivolity, without hearing oral argument, reviewing a record of the trial proceedings or considering full briefs, paupers could, of course, be bound by the same rules.
Smith had the advantage of acceding to that arrangement without a whole docket of documented untruths.
A shake-down? "Often we can't tell what the complaint involves without opening a docket and starting an investigation," Mr. Braunstein said.
"It would in effect create a black hole in which massive portions of the Superior Court docket in any given year would vanish without public trace," McLaughlin said.
Each judge's docket can reach 2,000 cases, and immigrants without lawyers are left with only judges to explain technicalities, help with paperwork and assume some responsibilities of counsel.
The bureaucratic enemies of yesteryear are still the knaves and fools they were, but another class of adversaries is now in the docket — the writers who stepped into the breach without sufficient knowledge or authority.
If you and your spouse are in agreement on all issues, you may appear without your spouse at an uncontested docket hearing, which will take approximately ten minutes.
Within 10 days of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department instructed immigration judges that all cases designated as "special interest" were to be handled in separate closed courtrooms, without visitors, family or reporters, and without confirming whether a case was on the docket.
1999) defines dismissed without prejudice as removed from the courts docket in such a way that the plaintiff may refile the same suit on the same claim, id., at 482, and defines dismissal without prejudice as [a] dismissal that does not bar the plaintiff from refiling the lawsuit within the applicable limitations period, ibid.
Health care has been on the docket longer than most Americans can expect to live, with or without it.
