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In reply to the discussion: When you were a little kid what things did you not understand or misunderstand. [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)3. Docket call in court.
My dad was a lawyer, and he would get up early and go to the courthouse to 9 o'clock docket call.
That is where the judge reads a list of cases set to be heard that day, either for a motion or a trial, and the lawyer announces "Ready" or "I need a continuance".
They do this every day in criminal court, because of the case load. Generally in civil court, they read the trial docket at 9 o'clock on Monday, for the rest of the week.
The list is called the "docket".
I thought that because it had the word "dock" in it, that he had to go to a dock. Like stand on the end of a pier.
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