Also known as: calendars · calendared · calendaring · docket · court calendar
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A court's list of civil or criminal cases scheduled for hearing or trial. The list determines the order in which matters are called and when parties must appear.
A systematized ordering of time into years, months, weeks, and days. The Gregorian calendar is the version used throughout the Western world.
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A court's list of civil or criminal cases scheduled for hearing or trial. The list determines the order in which matters are called and when parties must appear.
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A systematized ordering of time into years, months, weeks, and days. The Gregorian calendar is the version used throughout the Western world.
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Chloe Chen denied under oath that her marriage to Craig Caldwell was irretrievably broken. The court continued the matter for a conciliation conference and set the adjourned hearing on its calendar sixty days later. At that later date the court made the required finding on whether the marriage had broken down.
Crystal Dynamics challenged an agency rule in federal court. The district court placed the case on its calendar for oral argument after the agency certified the administrative record. The court later issued its decision upholding the rule.
Caitlin Crowley received notice that her disability benefits would end. The agency placed her appeal on the administrative calendar for a hearing before an ALJ. The ALJ upheld the termination after considering the evidence presented.
Clifford Cox opposed the city's taking of his property for redevelopment. The court set the compensation hearing on its calendar after the city filed the condemnation petition. The judge later determined just compensation based on the evidence.
Christine Castro faced removal proceedings. Her counsel moved to place the case on the immigration court's calendar for a hearing on the constitutional claim. The court granted the motion and scheduled argument.
Central Dynamics sought to develop its terminal building. The city placed the landmark dispute on the trial calendar after the owner filed suit. The court later ruled that the designation did not constitute a taking.
The court assigns the case a date and time for hearing or trial and adds it to the list of matters the court will call in order. Parties must appear on that date or risk default or dismissal.
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The Act directs a court to continue a divorce matter to a further hearing on the court's calendar between thirty and sixty days later when one party contests that the marriage is irretrievably broken.
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Yes. The term also denotes the Gregorian system that orders time into years, months, weeks, and days and is used throughout the Western world.
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