What is "ted"?

I have noticed lately that many people are using the term "ted" with regards to various cases. Even a lawyer on this website is using the same term in his article.
I am not sure if this is an abbreviation or acronym. So what is this word "ted" anyway?

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• The Execution Date -holala- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 08:54:20

• 回複：What is "ted"? -sdfsdfsdff- ♀ (126 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 08:58:06

• "ted" for submitted in this system -WorthIt- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 09:23:34

• i mean in this broken system -WorthIt- ♂ (88 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 09:35:17

• It happened again inside the post above -WorthIt- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 09:41:27

• i am curious too. anyone has the answer? -einmaliger- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 10:13:55

• test -WorthIt- ♂ (126 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 10:37:48

• The system only eats off "submit". -WorthIt- ♂ (86 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 10:56:29

• submitted -holala- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 11:09:47

• seems fine in subject line -holala- ♂ (3 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 11:11:12

• "submitted" is safe in this title field but not inside -WorthIt- ♂ (30 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 11:11:45

• test -lzr- ♀ (9 bytes) () 08/15/2006 postreply 11:16:05