Hey, I'm Small Potato. Thanks for downloading my theme. Open the about-box.php file and replace this text with your own message or simply replace it with the bloginfo function and description parameter.

August 20, 2010

Supreme Court lingo 101: the “doghouse”

If you spend a fair amount of time reviewing the Supreme Court’s on-line dockets, chances are you’ve seen an entry like this:  “Received Court of Appeal record – #B211932 – one doghouse.”  But what’s a doghouse?  We know the courts are not in the business of transporting canine domiciles.  Well, it turns out a “doghouse” is nothing more than a file folder, which the Court of Appeal sometimes uses to transport its file to the Supreme Court when a petition for review is filed.  They look like this:

One Response to “Supreme Court lingo 101: the “doghouse””

  1. Yes, but is this specific to the Appellate Courts? Where the heck did the term “doghouse” come from when referring to a file folder? I wonder…

Leave a Reply