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A brief summary of a document, also called an abstract
A listing of items that an organization plans on discussing, also called an agenda
The official schedule of proceedings in lawsuits pending in a court of law. The term originally referred to the large folio books in which clerks recorded all filings and court proceedings for each case. Rules of civil procedure often state that the court clerk shall record specific bits of information "on the docket" when a specific event occurs. Today, in most industrialized countries, such records have been computerized. The term is also sometimes used informally to refer to a court's caseload as a whole.
In certain courts, such as the Federal Court of Australia, the name given to the various proceedings that have been allocated to a particular judge - proceedings usually being so allocated upon commencement and remaining "in the judge's docket" until their disposition.
It is also a name for a small electric entrance key.
In her 24 years on the Court, O'Connor's votes were often the hardest to predict and the most coveted because her moderation and centrist position on the Court often made her the swing vote in controversial cases.
Dale, in which the Court held that the forced inclusion of homosexuals in the boy scouts infringes on the group's rights because gays affect the groups ability to advocate its viewpoints; in Zelman v.
California, in which the Court in 2003 validated California's "three strikes" criminal law; in the Grutter affirmative action case; and in Casey, for which O'Connor's was only one of three majority opinions.
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