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: Cleveland Law Library WeblogJudges Won't Tolerate Disrespectful or Uber-Casual Clothes in Court
By Cleveland Law Library
USA Today reports that judges around the country are becoming less and less forgiving of litigants who come to court dressed in jeans, flip-flops, skimpy clothes, and clothes with inappropriate sayings. The report even mentions a recent Hamilton County Municipal Court case where a party was warned not to return to court wearing anything like the slasher-movie t-shirt he initially wore to court. Without saying so, the article alludes to Mark Twain's famous quote: "Clothes make the man." [and woman] It seems that judges are just insisting that litigants show respect and take their cases seriously, but at least one person mentioned in the article is challenging a court's dress-code in court.
Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).
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