Morning Docket: 12.01.14

* Some think SCOTUS should be the biggest issue of Election 2016. Why? Because most of the justices are old as hell, and they'll only be older, more decrepit -- and potentially more likely to retire -- before or come voting time. [Washington Post] * Deans from "middle-ranked" schools continue to question the results of the July 2014 bar examination. Sure, recent grads were part of the law school brain drain, but there's no way they were "less able" than their older (and wiser) classmates. [WSJ Law Blog] * Darren Wilson resigned this weekend, but it wasn't because he killed an unarmed teenager in August. Wilson's lawyer says his client quit because other Ferguson officers could've been harmed if Wilson remained on the police force. [Reuters] * There's only one thing that's worse than a gunner, and that's a septuagenarian gunner. At 73 years old, Jim Edwards is the oldest student at the Nashville School of Law, and he "view[s] what [he's] doing as a calling from God." Aww. [USA Today] * This recent law school graduate may not have a job, but she figured out a creative way to make a small dent in her debt. She makes custom string art and sells it on Etsy. We're willing to bet Texas Tech Law counts her as employed. [Dallas Morning News]

* Some think SCOTUS should be the biggest issue of Election 2016. Why? Because most of the justices are old as hell, and they’ll only be older, more decrepit — and potentially more likely to retire — before or come voting time. [Washington Post]

* Deans from “middle-ranked” schools continue to question the results of the July 2014 bar examination. Sure, recent grads were part of the law school brain drain, but there’s no way they were “less able” than their older (and wiser) classmates. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Darren Wilson resigned this weekend, but it wasn’t because he killed an unarmed teenager in August. Wilson’s lawyer says his client quit because other Ferguson officers could’ve been harmed if Wilson remained on the police force. [Reuters]

* There’s only one thing that’s worse than a gunner, and that’s a septuagenarian gunner. At 73 years old, Jim Edwards is the oldest student at the Nashville School of Law, and he “view[s] what [he’s] doing as a calling from God.” Aww. [USA Today]

* This recent law school graduate may not have a job, but she figured out a creative way to make a small dent in her debt. She makes custom string art and sells it on Etsy. We’re willing to bet Texas Tech Law counts her as employed. [Dallas Morning News]

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